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Measuring the time-inconsistency of US monetary policy

Surico, Paolo - 2003

This paper offers an alternative explanation for the behavior of postwar US inflation by measuring a novel source of monetary policy time-inconsistency due to Cukierman (2002). In the presence of asymmetric preferences, the monetary authorities end up generating a systematic inflation bias...

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Temporary shocks and unavoidable transitions to a high-unemployment regime

Den Haan, Wouter J. - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment rate) in which equilibrium selection is not conditioned on a sunspot variable. Instead, large enough shocks initiate unavoidable transitions from one regime to the other. The...

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Memories of high inflation

Ehrmann, Michael; Tzamourani, Panagiota - 2009

Inflation has been well contained over the last decades in most industrialized countries. This implies, however, that memories of high inflation are likely to fade, because over time larger parts of the population have never experienced high inflation, whereas those who have might forget. This...

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Managing household debts : social service provision in the EU ; Workshop report - Brussels, 25 June 2010

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2010

Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of … household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or …

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Managing household debts : Social service provision in the EU ; Working paper

Dubois, Hans; Anderson, Robert - 2010

Household over-indebtedness is among the causes of the current financial crisis. In turn, the crisis exacerbated both … public and private debt problems. In this paper, household over-indebtedness is broadly defined as the situation where a … household cannot comply with payment requirements – whether it be mortgage, utility or consumer credit payments – on a …

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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996 - 2002

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010

Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education which accrued only to male workers. The positive effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages...

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Asset pricing, habit memory, and the labor market

Jaccard, Ivan - 2010

This article studies the asset pricing and the business cycle implications of habit formation in a production economy with capital adjustment costs and endogenous labor supply. A specification of internal habit in the mix of consumption and leisure which minimizes the wealth effect on labor...

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The response of labour taxation to changes in government debt

Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine; … - 2011

This paper investigates the relationship between government debt and labour taxation for a panel of 18 EU countries over the period 1979-2008. The econometric estimates point to a statistically significant and economically relevant positive response of labour taxation to changes in the general...

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Making sustainable consumption and production a reality

Julien, Bruno (contributor) - 2009

This guide shows how a life cycle approach can be used to identify and reduce the environmental and health impacts of the products we use. It underlines the importance of considering these issues across the entire life cycle of a product and sets them within the context of policy development,...

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Private consumption in France - stubbornly high, or responsive to determinants?

Casaux, Suzanne; Ecochard, Pierre - 2011

This Country Focus studies the development of private consumption in France during the decade before the crisis. Are French consumers greater spendthrifts than their European fellows? In this paper, we estimate a consumption function to show that strong growth of private consumption in France...

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