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Commodity Price Volatility and the Sources of Growth
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
as on the three main growth channels: total factor productivity, physical capital accumulation, and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650613
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Regional economy and manufacturing update
Dudley, William - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010
Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010724980
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Regional economy and manufacturing update
Dudley, William - In: Speech (2010) Jul 22
Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008461939
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Cointegrated TFP Processes and International Business Cycles
Tuesta, Vicente; Rubio-Ramirez, Juan F.; Rabanal, Pau - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the "rest of the world," is characterized by a vector error...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559267
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Recent French Export Performance; Is there a Competitiveness Problem?
Kabundi, Alain N.; Simone, Francisco Nadal-De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany, deteriorated. That deterioration seems related to the geographical destination and product composition of trend exports. Faced with an increase in unit labor costs or in its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769088
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Economic Integration, Business Cycle, and Productivity in North America
Kose, M. Ayhan; Cardarelli, Roberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement … productivity of Canadian industries, the persistence of structural differences between the two countries has prevented convergence … of aggregate labor productivity. While these findings seem to weigh against moving toward a monetary union, they also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769318
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Investment; Specific Technology Shocks and International Business Cycles: An Empirical Assessment
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international real business cycle model and show that a thoughtful calibration of them along the lines of Raffo (2009) successfully addresses the "quantity", "international comovement",...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671290
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Potential Growth in Emerging Asia
Anand, Rahul; Cheng, Kevin C.; Rehman, Sidra; Zhang, Longmei - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
potential growth, largely reflecting a decline of total factor productivity (TFP) growth; (ii) by contrast, trend growth for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142066
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Chile; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243850
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Real wage cyclicality of job stayers, within-company job movers, and between-company job movers
Hart, Robert A.; Devereux, Paul J. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2006
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, the authors estimate the wage cyclicality (the degree to which wage levels rise and fall with economic upturns and downturns) of three groups: job stayers, within-company job movers, and between-company job movers. Wages of internal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269486