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A local public-good game played on directed networks is analyzed. The model is motivated by one-way flows of hydrological influence between cities of a river basin that may shape the level of their contribution to the conservation of wetlands. It is shown that in many (but not all) directed...
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Milton Friedman's contributions to and influence on macroeconomics are discussed, beginning with his work on the consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 Keynesian consensus in the area. His inter-related...
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The paper sets out a monetary business cycle model with three alternative exchange technologies, the cash … puzzles of the monetary business cycle theory. The credit model improves the ability to explain the procyclic movement of …
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In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate...
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Evidence-based policy of global warming is best relying on a relevant sample of data. We choose a sample of annual data from 1959 to-date to provide some statistically robust stylized facts about the relationships between actual CO2 and temperature. Visually, there is a clear upward trend in...
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business cycle, and how the macroeconomy looks in the aftermath of changes in trade restrictiveness. For the sample as a whole …
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integration impacts positively on business cycle comovements of economies. We consider three Western equity markets, represented … high frequencies have become less pronounced; (ii) the European markets are in phase at business cycle frequency, while the … findings of traditional business cycle research, and it has the advantage of using only readily available stock market data. …
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According to the intertemporal-substitution hypothesis, which underlies the typical empirical real business cycle model …-substitution hypothesis. We estimate a fixed-effects life-cycle labor-supply model with more informative data, the triannual micro data of the … labor-market specification of empirical real business cycle models. …
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It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...
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This paper proposes a new filter technique to separate trend and cycle based on stylised economic properties of trend … and cycle, rather than relying on ad hoc statistical proper-ties such as frequency. Given the theoretical separation … between economic growth and business cycle literature, it is necessary to make the measures of trend and cycle match what the …
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