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We compute average markups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions, the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries, show that the markup (i) depicts a...
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We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...
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, the problem will be inflation if sufficient resources cannot be diverted to the GND. And if inflation is likely, we need … voluntary saving. Following Keynes, we recommend deferred consumption as our first choice should inflation pressures arise. We … conclude that it is likely that the GND can be phased in without inflation, but if price pressures do appear, deferring a small …
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The paper analyses 19760/70s inflation, the replacement of Keynesian with neo-liberal economic policy, and the post …-1979 decline in inflation. It is shown that the fall in inflation is explained by trends in import prices rather than by … understanding of the institutional roots of inflation …
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archive of more than 300 sovereign debt restructurings since 1815, we show that full repudiation is rare; the median haircut …
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markets. Subsequently, the European government debt crisis that started in 2010 stimulated initiatives to strengthen economic …
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Relations between national public and private savings, domestic investment, and the current account are analyzed with the Global Econometric Model (National Institute, London). Simulation results obtained with this full modeling approach for the US, Japan, Germany and the UK are compared with...
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This paper uses the sector financial balances model of aggregate demand to illustrate the effects of fiscal austerity policies on the economy. It further demonstrates that government deficits are not directly controllable by policy makers but are rather endogenous to the responses of the private...
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