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behaviour of trade unions? To approach these questions theoretical as well as empirical methods were used. The empirical methods …
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Auch in Dänemark schwächte sich das Wirtschaftswachstum im Laufe des vergangenen Jahres ab. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt dürfte nur noch um 1 ¼ % expandiert sein. Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt hat sich die Lage zuletzt etwas verschlechtert. Die Arbeitslosenquote lag im Jahresdurchschnitt bei 4 ½...
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Arbeitsmarkt ist trotz der besseren Konjunktur keine rasche Belebung zu erwarten. Auch bei der Finanzlage der öffentlichen …
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Im gegenwärtigen Europawahlkampf vertritt Jean-Claude Juncker die Ansicht, dass europäische Staaten mit konservativen Regierungen bessere wirtschaftliche Daten vorweisen können als Staaten mit sozialistischen Regierungen. Ob Regierungen unterschiedlicher parteipolitischer Zusammensetzung auch...
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This Selected Issues paper for Chile describes the postcrisis recovery experience. The recovery from the 2008–2009 global crisis has been markedly different both among advanced and emerging economies. The steady improvement in the labor wedge-distortions related to the consumption leisure...
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monetary policy. Since expectations affect demand, our theory shows economic fluctuations are mostly driven by varying demand …
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We examine the relationship between institutions, culture and cyclical fluctuations for a sample of 45 European, Middle Eastern and North African countries. Better governance is associated with shorter and less severe contractions and milder expansions. Certain cultural traits, such as lack of...
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We examine sentiment variables as new predictors for US recessions. We combine sentiment variables with either classical recession predictors or with common factors based on a large panel of macroeconomic and ?nancial variables. Sentiment variables hold vast predictive power for US recessions in...
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The contribution of the present paper is twofold. First, we show that in a situation where agents can only observe a noisy signal of the shock to future economic fundamentals, the "noisy news", SVAR models can still be successfully employed to estimate the shock and the associated impulse...
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The present paper describes recent research on two central themes of Keynes' General Theory: (i) the social waste …
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