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Public finances and long-term growth in Europe

De Ávila, Diego Romero; Strauch, Rolf - 2003

In Lisbon the European Council proclaimed a European growth strategy. It considers an average economic u0093growth rate of around 3 percent as a realistic prospect for the coming yearsu0094 and assigns public finances an important role in the process of achieving this goal. This paper addresses...

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Capital quality improvement and the sources of growth in the euro area

Sakellaris, Plutarchos; Vijselaar, Focco W. - 2004

Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...

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Productivity and the ('synthetic') euro-dollar exchange rate

Schnatz, Bernd; Vijselaar, Focco; Osbat, Chiara - 2003

This paper analyses the impact of productivity developments in the United States and the euro area on the euro …-dollar exchange rate. The paper presents a new measure of relative average labour productivity (ALP), which does not suffer from the … productivity proxies. Our results indicate that the extent to which productivity can explain the euro depreciation varies with the …

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Imposing parsimony in cross-country growth regressions

Jarociński, Marek - 2010

The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many of the considered variables need to be excluded from...

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Banking sector output measurement in the euro area

Colangelo, Antonio; Inklaar, Robert - 2010

Banks do not charge explicit fees for many of the services they provide but the service payment is bundled with the offered interest rates. This output therefore has to be imputed using estimates of the opportunity cost of funds. We argue that rather than using the single short-term, low-risk...

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Inflation, factor substitution and growth

Klump, Rainer - 2003

Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining such a pattern. It is shown in this paper that this...

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The role of product market regulations in the process of structural change

Messina, Julián - 2003

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, product market regulations raise...

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Forecasting euro area inflation using dynamic factor measures of underlying inflation

Camba-Méndez, Gonzalo; Kapetanios, George - 2004

Standard measures of prices are often contaminated by transitory shocks. This has prompted economists to suggest the use of measures of underlying inﬂation to formulate monetary policy and assist in forecasting observed inﬂation. Recent work has concentrated on modelling large datasets using...

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A quantitative mirror on the Euribor market using implied probability density functions

Vincent-Humphreys, Rupert de; Puigvert Gutiérrez, … - 2010

This paper presents a set of probability density functions for Euribor outturns in three months’ time, estimated from the prices of options on Euribor futures. It is the first official and freely available dataset to span the complete history of Euribor futures options, thus comprising over...

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Unemployment, hysteresis and transition

León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter - 2003

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...

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