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Crude oil markets witness growing disparity between the quality of crudes supplied and demanded in the market. The market share of low-quality crudes is increasing due to the depletion of old fields and increasing demand. This is unnerving the practitioners and affecting the relevance of the...
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This paper investigates the determinants of price dispersion between staple and non-staple goods in grocery retailing, as the result of pricing decisions by multiproduct firms. Theoretical predictions about the nature of supermarkets' pricing behaviour are compared and tested empirically using...
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Linear models reach their limitations in applications with nonlinearities in the data. In this paper new empirical evidence is provided on the relative Euro inflation forecasting performance of linear and non-linear models. The well established and widely used univariate ARIMA and multivariate...
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Recent literature on optimum currency areas has emphasized the importance of analysing the nature of the shocks facing the economy when deciding among alternative exchange rate regimes. In this paper we use a structural VAR to model the joint behaviour of real output, nominal interest rates,...
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Starting from a theoretical model with importable, traded and nontraded goods, we identify a long run relationship among Greek imports, domestic activity and relative prices. The model supports weak exogeneity of relative prices which means that Greek importers take the price of imports as...
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Starting from a theoretical model with traded and non-traded goods, a long-run labour demand equation is identifed, with employment being proportional to relative output and prices. Using Greek data, the model supports weak exogeneity of relative prices and fiscal expansion with respect to the...
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