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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries
Zaghini, Andrea - 2003
The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635952
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Trade with central and eastern Europe
Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640296
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?
Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640686
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Import prices and pricing-to-market effects in the euro area
Warmedinger, Thomas - 2004
higher than one half. The results from illustrative simulations suggest that the increase in euro-area inflation during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636522
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Forecasting euro area inflation
Hubrich, Kirstin - 2003
Monitoring and forecasting price developments in the euro area is essential in the light of the second pillar of the ECBu0092s monetary policy strategy. This study analyses whether the forecasting accuracy of forecasting aggregate euro area inflation can be improved by aggregating forecasts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635954
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Inflation and relative price asymmetry
Ratfai, Attila - 2004
By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this … forecast error variance in inflation at the 12-month horizon. While the contemporaneous correlation between inflation and … relative price asymmetry is positive, idiosyncratic shocks lead to a substantial build-up in inflation only after two to five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636524
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Equilibrium unemployment, job flows and inflation dynamics
Trigari, Antonella - 2004
In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of … the model to account for the joint dynamics of output and inflation rely on its ability to explain the dynamics in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636527
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A structural common factor approach to core inflation estimation and forecasting
Morana, Claudio - 2004
principal components estimator, suited to estimate systems of fractionally cointegrated processes. The proposed core inflation … measure is the scaled common persistent factor in inflation and excess nominal money growth and bears the interpretation of … monetary inflation. The proposed measure is characterised by all the properties that an u0093idealu0094 core inflation process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636528
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A markup model of inflation for the euro area
Bowdler, Christopher; Jansen, Eilev S. - 2004
Equilibrium correction models of the price level are often used to model inflation. Such models assume that the long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636529
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Fiscal policy and inflation volatility
Rother, Philipp C. - 2004
Among the harmful effects of inflation, the negative consequences of inflation volatility are of particular concern … inflation volatility. Major results are robust for unconditional and conditional inflation volatility, the latter derived from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636540