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targets for macroeconomic convergence, intending to eliminate exchange rate uncertainty within the bloc and reduce the costs … the set macroeconomic targets has been very slow, resulting in high exchange rate uncertainty within the region. It is … on the exchange rate uncertainty of EAC states using secondary panel data. The study made use of standard deviation and …
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This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty on both exchange rate expectations and forecast errors of professionals for … uncertainty as well as disagreement among CPI inflation forecasters to account for different dimensions of uncertainty. Based on a … uncertainty and disagreement among exchange rate forecasters and identify a strong relationship between them. …
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
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An aggregate production function is estimated with recent cointegrating techniques that are particularly appropriate for estimating long-run relationships. The empirical results suggest that the growth of output in France has been spurred by increased trade integration within the European...
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We explore the welfare consequences of the alternative monetary and exchange-rate regimes still available to the small country in open international financial markets in view of the optimum monetary policy that the large country adopts for itself. Both economies are based on nominal wage...
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We investigate the link between real exchange rates and sectoral TFP for eurozone countries. We show that real exchange rate variation, both cross-country and time-series, closely accords with an amended Balassa-Samuelson interpretation, incorporating sectoral productivity shocks and a labor...
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between increased exchange rate flexibility and economic growth and its volatility in emerging market economies. We also investigate the implications of exchange rate flexibility for financial market development. We do not find a robust correlation...
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We develop a measure of static misallocation that separates uncertainty from misallocation generated by tax …-like distortions. In the Finnish firm-level data, uncertainty accounts for the majority of ex post misallocation and explains a strong … implies idiosyncratic distortions, in line with our accounting approach. According to our quantitative results, uncertainty …
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-level uncertainty and imperfect information over their life cycle. We find that firms make non-negligible and positively correlated … informed. Moreover, young firms tend to wait long before entering or exiting the market faced with high uncertainty about their …
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