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Housing, Multi-Level Governance and Economic Productivity

Dodson, Jago - 2017

This study investigated appropriate frameworks to better understand the way in which housing policy mechanisms contribute to economic productivity and growth. It reviewed the literature, key Federal Government policy statements and reports released over the past decade; analysed the mechanisms through...

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Modern (American) Capitalism : A Three Act Tragedy

Setterfield, Mark - 2017

This paper examines the process of demand formation in capitalist economies characterized by high levels of household indebtedness, with a particular focus on contemporary developments and their sustainability. The thesis developed is that over the past 35 years, supply-side economics hollowed...

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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil

Engbom, Niklas - 2017

We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil, which experienced a large decrease in earnings inequality while its real minimum wage increased from 1996-2012, we document that the inequality decrease was bottom-driven yet...

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The U.S. Academic Profession : Some Thoughts on the Past, Present, and Future

Simpson, Michael W. - 2008

This paper examines the authors 35 year path through U.S. higher education. Personal experience combined with scholarly work combines to shed light on the academic profession and colleges and universities. Being a student in 4 different decades in many different institutions of higher education...

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Entrepreneurship, Labor Market Mobility and the Role of Entrepreneurial Insurance

Gaillard, Alexandre - 2020

This paper introduces a quantitative model with risky entrepreneurship and search frictions matching the occupational flows between entrepreneurship, paid-employment, and unemployment. We account for the general shape of these flows and key entrepreneurial and labor market features based mostly...

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Measuring Macroeconomic Uncertainty in Zimbabwe

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2019

What matters to economic decision-making is whether the economy has become more or less predictable. People and businesses use information around them to form judgements about what might happen in the future. The rise in uncertainty might be associated with increased concern about extreme...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through & Management of Inflation Expectation in a Small Open Inflation Targeting Economy

Nasir, Muhammad Ali - 2019

This study analyses the aspect of inflation expectations management in the context of inflation targeting by … particularly focusing on the impact of exchange rate pass-through to inflation expectations in a small open economy. We also … augment the inflation expectations function with GDP, inflation, unemployment, fiscal stance, oil prices, and money supply …

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The Performativity of Potential Output : Pro-Cyclicality and Path Dependency in Coordinating European Fiscal Policies

Heimberger, Philipp - 2016

This paper analyzes the performative impact of the European Commission's model for estimating ‘potential output', which is used as a yardstick for measuring the ‘structural budget balance' of EU countries and, hence, is crucial for coordinating European fiscal policies. In pre-crisis years,...

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The Current Economic and Financial Crisis : A Gender Perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2015

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisis - often referred to as “the Great Recession” - there is grave concern that progress made in...

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In Search of a Long-Run Phillips Curve in the US

Goldberg, Elliot - 2018

Although there is academic research confirming a short-run negative correlation between unemployment and inflation, the …

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