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The spillover of euro area shocks to the Maltese economy

Gatt, William; Ruisi, Germano - 2022

This paper develops a two-block Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) to estimate the spillover of external shocks to the Maltese economy. The model focuses on five broad macroeconomic shocks hitting the euro area; an aggregate demand shock, two aggregate supply shocks which respectively proxy...

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Labour productivity growth in Malta : a sectoral decomposition analysis

Montebello, Roberta; Darmanin, Jude - 2021

This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … gains and resource reallocation. Real labour productivity growth in Malta averaged 1.2% between 2000 and 2019, double that …

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A study on the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to consumer prices in Malta

Abela, Glenn; Rapa, Noel - 2021

Malta after its accession to the European Monetary Union. In line with literature, results point at incomplete ERPT to …

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A stress testing framework for the Maltese household sector

Abela, Kirsten; Georgakopoulus, Ilias - 2022

This paper outlines a stress testing framework for the household sector in Malta based on micro data. The analysis …

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Saving behaviour in Malta : insights from the Household Budgetary Survey

Abela, Glenn; Gatt, William - 2021

We use household-level data from the Household Budgetary Survey to study the saving patterns of Maltese households. We first establish a set of key observations from the data, showing that the likelihood of saving rises with income, age and education. We then estimate a Logit model of the...

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The labour market impact of Covid-19 : early evidence for a sample of enterprises from Southern Europe

Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. The evidence and the analysis are provided at a time when the pandemic is still in progress. The...

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An assessment of the macroeconomic implications of foreign and domestic labour supply shocks in Malta

Ruisi, Germano - 2020

Over the recent years Malta has experienced a remarkable increase in its labour force due to a large influx of …

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Household Finance and Consumption Survey : a comparison of the main results for Malta with the euro area

Attard, Silvio; Deguara, Warren; Antonaroli, Valentina - 2020

Malta with those for the euro area. This comparative report finds that in 2016 the median Maltese household held more real … of homeownership in Malta, the median net wealth in Malta was estimated to be significantly higher than in the euro area … macroeconomic and socio-demographic backgrounds, the survey results highlight heterogeneous developments between Malta and the euro …

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Research note : illustrating the distributional implications of measures from the 2016 budget for Malta

Bugeja, Simon; Mifsud, Godwin; Saliba, Pauline - 2016

This paper examines the main measures as announced in the 2016 Budget for Malta and their redistributive impact. The …

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Youth employment policies in Malta

Debono, Manwel - 2018

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