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-rate smoothing or with GDP growth deviations from trend in place of the output gap. However, improvement vis-à-vis other models …
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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 … instability and the aggregate elasticity of factor substitution. Several microeconomic justifications can be found for a negative …
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This paper presents a two period overlapping generations model with endogenous growth in the presence of a public … growth of the economy. In addition the transitional process towards fiscal targets critically depends on the adjustment tool …
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This paper investigates fiscal sustainability in an overlapping generations economy with endogenous growth coming from … outlook for economic growth, thereby providing a rationale for fiscal rules ensuring sustainability. Our results show that the … (change in the population growth rate) under different fiscal policy scenarios. …
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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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This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the … have posted higher average growth and wider output fluctuations than the euro area and other EU countries. Second, a set of …
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After the switch to a floating exchange rate in 1973, the Swiss National Bank at first adopted annual monetary targets and in the 1990s shifted to a medium-term targeting strategy. In this paper I review the SNBu0092s internal policy analysis, an aspect of Swiss monetary targeting that has...
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In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a general equilibrium model that integrates a theory of equilibrium unemployment into a monetary model with nominal price rigidities. Then, it estimates a set of structural parameters...
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This paper examines the properties of G-7 cycles using a multicountry Bayesian panel VAR model with time variations, unit specific dynamics and cross country interdependences. We demonstrate the presence of a significant world cycle and show that country specific indicators play a much smaller...
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This paper identifies the empirical stylized features of price setting behaviour in Portugal using the micro-datasets underlying the consumer and the producer price indexes. The main conclusions are the following: 1 in every 4 prices change each month; there is a considerable degree of...
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