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For a small open economy with fixed exchange rate regime, the twin deficit hypothesis is always an interesting and relevant research topic. The aim of this research is to evaluate the effects of the government budget shocks on the current account movement in the case of the Macedonian economy,...
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productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime changes in France …
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adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that … data predicts 10 percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany. …
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adverse consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that … data predicts 10 percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany. …
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We present a unified dynamic framework to study the interconnections between international trade and business cycle models. We prove an aggregate equivalence between a competitive, representative firm model that has aggregate production externalities and dynamic trade models that feature...
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reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …
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levels, inflation and interest rate; and (ii) interestingly, an increase in the government spending is not always offset by …
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An n-variable structural vector auto-regression (SVAR) can be identified (up to shock order) from the evolution of the residual covariance across time if the structural shocks exhibit heteroskedasticity (Rigobon (2003), Sentana and Fiorentini (2001)). However, the path of residual covariances is...
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For over a decade of practicing inflation targeting (IT) strategy, inflation has remained high and persistent while … management in Ghana by reducing average inflation rate, boosting average growth rate and dampening the cyclical oscillations in … both output and inflation. We however find a slower pace of disinflation in Ghana, underpinning the high inflation inertia …
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in output and inflation. However, we find that fiscal policy had the 'wrong sign' in the years leading up to the recent …
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