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evolves stochastically over time. Each period, each firm, given the aggregate demand shock, the productivity of its technology …
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through a reservation wage effect. Second, a positive productivity shock causes firms to invest more resources in innovation …
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What is the role of supply and demand forces in determining movements in international banking flows? Answering this question is crucial for understanding the international transmission of financial shocks and formulating policy. This paper addresses the question by using the method developed in...
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This paper views the growth and convergence process of the four Visegrad economies - the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia - through the lens of the open economy, stochastic neoclassical growth model. We use a unified framework to understand both the long-run convergence path and...
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relative net demand shock against the low skilled (like the US) during this period. It turns out that only workers with an … educational level below apprenticeship were affected by such a shock. Furthermore, I test whether wages reacted flexibly to this … shock and find that they were rigid, which can explain the relative unemployment increase for this group. Finally, I test …
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An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of movements in unemployment, import prices, tax rates...
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labor demand and the wage bargaining process. The analysis of the interaction of shock spillovers and benefit system focuses …
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highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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market shock is provoked in the home country or originates from abroad. We also point out how our results extend to two …
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