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This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on...
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Commodity and energy prices have exhibited an unprecedented increase between October 2006 and July 2008, only to fall sharply during the last months of 2008. Many explanations have been offered to this phenomenon, including steadily increasing demand from China and India, large mandated...
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Prices for nearly all basic commodity rose at unprecedented rates throughout early 2008, only to fall nearly as fast as financial markets and global economies began to collapse. Rising food prices in 2008 led to concerns that commodity price spikes would lead to more general food inflation, but...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/24/09.
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Although higher commodity prices are commonly thought to presage higher rates of inflation, the existing literature suggests that the predictive power of commodity prices for inflation has waned since the 1980s. In the first chapter, I show that this result can be overturned using...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es contrastar empíricamente el impacto entre países de shocks de precios de materias primas en el crecimiento de la PTF agregada en una muestra de economías emergentes. En un contexto de contabilidad de crecimiento, estimamos crecimientos de la PTF específicos por...
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Con el objetivo de contener el avance del Covid-19, el Real Decreto-ley 10/2020, del 29 de marzo, estableció el cese de toda actividad considerada como no esencial entre el 30 de marzo y el 9 de abril de 2020, ambos inclusive. Este documento explota información a escala municipal para...
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La epidemia de Covid-19 está teniendo un impacto negativo sin precedentes sobre la actividad económica y, en particular, sobre los ingresos de las empresas, provocando que en algunos casos estos sean insuficientes para hacer frente a los pagos comprometidos. En este documento se presentan los...
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Artículo de revista ; La propagación global del Covid-19 y la adopción, en una mayoría de países, de medidas extraordinarias para paliar sus efectos sobre la salud pública, tales como la paralización de parte de la actividad económica y el confinamiento de la población, están teniendo...
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