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Explaining the Gaps in Labour Productivity in Some Developed Countries : New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada, 1988-2004
Razzak, W.A. - 2008
Modern economic theories explain differences in productivity and economic growth across countries by differences in … of these theories in explaining the gap in productivity between any two countries depends on the countries in the sample … developed and developing countries, but are too small to explain the productivity gaps between developed countries. We test this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768355
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On the Causality Between Saving and Growth: Long- and Short-Run Dynamics and Country Heterogeneity
Andersson, Björn - 1999
The temporal interdependence between saving and output has been in focus in a number of recent empirical studies. Results from these studies have compelled some authors to question the traditional notion of a causal chain where saving leads growth through capital accumulation. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321740
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Permanent and Transitory Macroeconomic Relationships between the US and China
Jia, Yueqing - 2009
The relationships between the economic fluctuations of the US and China, the largest developed and developing countries respectively, are very important not only to both countries but also to the world economy. This paper applies a two-country correlated unobserved components model to explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153333
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Five Steps to Grow the Cuban Economy : What the US and Cuba Can Do in Obama's Final Year
Klein, Michael W. - 2016
The Cuban government has a dominant role to play in determining the future landscape of the country's financial markets. This is a multifaceted issue. Finance operates in combination with a constellation of other factors, including sound laws, institutions that respect property rights, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996493
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On the causality between saving and growth : long- and short-run dynamics and country heterogeneity
Andersson, Björn - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001427066
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On the causality between saving and growth : long- and short-run dynamics and country heterogeneity
Andersson, Björn - 1999
The temporal interdependence between saving and output has been in focus in a number of recent empirical studies. Results from these studies have compelled some authors to question the traditional notion of a causal chain where saving leads growth through capital accumulation. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587110
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Forecasting the yield curve in a data-rich environment: a no-arbitrage factor-augmented VAR approach
Mönch, Emanuel - 2005
This paper suggests a term structure model which parsimoniously exploits a broad macroeconomic information set. The model does not incorporate latent yield curve factors, but instead uses the common components of a large number of macroeconomic variables and the short rate as explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604590
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Cointegration analysis with mixed-frequency data
Seong, Byeongchan; Ahn, Sung K.; Zadrozny, Peter A. - 2007
We develop a method for directly modeling cointegrated multivariate time series that are observed in mixed frequencies. We regard lower-frequency data as regularly (or irregularly) missing and treat them with higher-frequency data by adopting a state-space model. This utilizes the structure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264085
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R&D and aggregate fluctuations
Artuç, Erhan; Pourpourides, Panayiotis M. - 2012
Using US data for the period 1959-2007, we identify sectoral productivity shocks and capital investment-specific shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288752
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R&D and aggregate fluctuations
Artuç, Erhan; Pourpourides, Panayiotis M. - 2012
Using US data for the period 1959-2007, we identify sectoral productivity shocks and capital investment-specific shocks … percent of the variation of output in the non-R&D sector. -- Cycles ; Productivity Shocks ; Investment-specific Shocks ; R …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530178