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experience has a significant impact on savings. When facing considerable political risk, the past does seem to matter - countries …
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We provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of eurozone countries from 2000 to 2012. We analyze private leverage, fiscal policy, labor costs and interest rates and we propose a strategy to separate the impact of credit cycles, excessive government spending, and sudden stops. We then ask...
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the Second World War, a brief snapshot of pre-European Union and Euro zone era, to understand the political and economic …
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possible shifts in global savings and investment that have led to this fall in the world real interest rate. There are several … factors explaining movements in savings and investment are variables that evolve relatively slowly over time, such as labour … key findings. First, the authors identify the relative weakness in investment demand as more important than the relative …
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Globalization and strengthening of integration processes have, among other things, also influenced some solutions relating to monetary sovereignty of particular countries. A great number of transition countries as well as some other underdeveloped countries are facing both inefficiency in their...
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This paper makes a theoretical and an empirical contribution to the debate on what caused the "global imbalances". On the empirical side, I provide different types of evidence to support that housing demand shocks (shocks to the aggregate marginal rate of substitution between housing and...
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On 23 June 2010, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank and SUERF jointly organised a conference on "The Future of Banking in CESEE after the Financial Crisis", incorporating the SUERF Annual Lecture, delivered by Manfred Schepers, Vice President, Finance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
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level. Today, the world development level results from an ongoing investment, in various forms. The different ways to invest … investment in research and development on productivity growth as a major determinant of competitiveness and economic growth. So … field. In this paper we propose to consider first the role of investment in the creation of competitive advantage in the …
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Cet article présente les contributions originelles et essentielles de T. Sargent et C. Sims à la modélisation macro-économétrique. Après avoir exposé leur critique de la modélisation existante, cet article s'attache à préciser l'originalité de leurs approches respectives. La...
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There is a demand for safe assets, either government bonds or private substitutes, for use as collateral. Government bonds are safe assets, given the government's power to tax, but their supply is driven by fiscal considerations, and does not necessarily meet the private demand for safe assets....
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