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The launch of the euro reinforces the foundations for unprecedented economic integration encompassing 11 countries, 16 per cent of world GDP and 290 million people. For the first time, the OECD has studied the euro-area as a fully-fledged economic entity and has analysed the intensive...
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of an aging population and a declining working age population, hence highlighting the pertinence of immigration as a … the pertinence of immigration as a possible solution. …
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An immigration shock has an ambiguous effect on inflation. On one hand, aggregate consumption increases with a suddenly …. The response of an inflation-targeting central bank to an immigration shock is, therefore, not obvious. We study these … country that has experienced a substantial immigration flow in recent years …
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This paper offers an alternative explanation for the behavior of postwar US inflation by measuring a novel source of monetary policy time-inconsistency due to Cukierman (2002). In the presence of asymmetric preferences, the monetary authorities end up generating a systematic inflation bias...
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We revisit recent evidence on how monetary policy affects output and prices in the U.S. and in the euro area. The response patterns to a shift in monetary policy are similar in most respects, but differ noticeably as to the composition of output changes. In the euro area investment is the...
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