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Real Wages and the 'Malthusian Problem' in Antwerp and South-Eastern England, 1400 - 1700: A regional comparison of levels and trends in real wages

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

In a path-breaking but largely overlooked study, published in a festchrift thirty years ago (1975), Herman Van der Wee provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from 1400 to 1700. To do so, he constructed a composite...

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Business Fluctuations, Job Flows and Trade Unions - Dynamics in the Economy

Schirwitz, Beate - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

behaviour of trade unions? To approach these questions theoretical as well as empirical methods were used. The empirical methods …

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The Impact of Central Bank Independence and Union Concentration on Macroeconomic Perfromance in the Presence of Aggregate Supply Shocks. Evidence from 10 OECD Countries (1971-85).

Chou, Y.K. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2001

In this paper, we use panel data from 1971 to 1985 to test the hypothesis that differences in monetary and wage institutions can explain a significant fraction of the variations in the macroeconomic performance of 10 OECD countries following the OPEC shocks of 1973-74 and 1979-80. After...

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Political and Business Cycles: Interferences and Socio-Economic Implications in Romania and Republic of Moldova

Stanislav, Percic; Constantin-Marius, Apostoaie; … - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XIV (2014) 1, pp. 163-168

The electoral instability falls into the continuous shifts in paradigms, systems, values and economic performance which countries around the world still experience. We believe it is common sense that the election process in a democratic country has an important impact (even a manipulation...

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Non-Walrasian Labor Market and the European Business Cycle

Zanetti, Francesco - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2003

This paper investigates to what extent a New Keynesian, monetary model with the addition of a microfounded, non-Walrasian labor market based on union bargaining is able to replicate key aspects of the European business cycle. The presence of a representative union permits to explain two features...

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Eigenvalue Decomposition of Time Series with Application to the Czech Business Cycle

Benes, Jaromir; Vavra, David - Česká Národní Banka - 2004

We follow a Beveridge-Nelson like time series decomposition method (into trend, business cycle and irregular components), and examine a stylized model of price inflation determination using the Czech data. We characterize the estimated components of CPI, IPPI and import inflations, together with...

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Domestic Versus International Determinants Of European Business Cycles: A GVAR Approach

Boschi, Melisso; Marzo, Massimiliano; Salotti, Simone - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

We investigate the sources of macroeconomic (output and inflation) variability in selected European countries within and outside the European Monetary Union: Germany, Italy, Austria, the UK and Poland. Using quarterly data from 1985:1 to 2005:4, we estimate a Global Vector Autoregressive (GVAR)...

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Is corporatism feasible?

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003

difficult to implement corporatism, although it generally increases social welfare, since it often reduces the union’s utility …

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They don't get me I'm part of the union: Trade unions in the German parliament

Berlemann, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus W. - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2010

This article focuses on the role of unionized members in parliament. Unions have not been successful in increasing … members in the Bundestag cannot be seen as the parliamentary arm of the trade unions. However, we present contradicting … and increases inflation while unemployment remains unaffected. Thus, at least German trade unions do not seem to be as …

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Robustness and feasibility of corporatism

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2001

By considering a standard game between the Government and a centralised trade union, we investigate the robustness of the claim that corporatism has a positive effect on macroeconomic performance. We test this claim with respect to different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria, model...

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