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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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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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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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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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the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …
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firm entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also, decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms are carried out. The … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …
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Slovakia is engaged in an ambitious reform process which has the potential to quicken productivity growth, increase the …
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