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This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...
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Vietnam has been following China's path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of … the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper addresses this question with regard to Vietnam, who joined the WTO at the … beginning of 2007: we study Vietnam's potential for sustainable growth and international integration. We start by briefly …
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We study the short-run macroeconomic effects of trade policies that are equivalent in a friction-less economy, namely a … reduction (VP), and a border adjustment of corporate pro.t taxes (BAT). Using a dynamic New Keynesian open-economy framework, we …
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We provide a centennial overview of the Irish economy in the one hundred years following partition and independence. A …
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Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession. This paper shows that the effects of short-time work are strongly time dependent and...
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Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty in order to prevent layoffs and stabilize employment. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great Recession, for example. This paper shows that the effects of...
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We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both...
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