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Ongoing Changes in the Business Cycle: Evidence and Causes

Dalsgaard, Thomas; Elmeskov, Jørgen; Park, Cyn-Young - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2002

This paper first reviews a number of stylised facts concerning OECD country business cycles over the past four decades. In general, the amplitude of business cycles has fallen, driven mainly by declining fluctuations of domestic demand. As a result, international divergencies of cyclical...

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Do Structural Policies Affect Macroeconomic Stability?

Ziemann, Volker - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Using a panel of OECD countries, this study assesses the linkages between structural policies and macroeconomic stability. Business cycle and time-series characteristics of GDP and its components are employed to define various measures for economic instability and for the persistence of adverse...

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US Long Term Interest Rates and Capital Flows to Emerging Economies

Olaberria, Eduardo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

Following Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments before Congress that the FOMC may ‘take a step down in the pace of asset purchases if economic improvement appears to be sustained’, US 10-year interest rates picked up sharply and gross capital flows to emerging market economies (EMEs) reversed....

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Ongoing Changes in the Business Cycle : Evidence and Causes

Dalsgaard, Thomas - 2002

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Strengthening economic resilience within global value chains in Switzerland

Frohm, Erik - 2024

Switzerland has shown remarkable strength during past economic downturns. A comprehensive risk planning and monitoring system, as well as essential-goods stockpiles has effectively bridged temporary supply disruptions. Yet, rising geopolitical tensions and a global shift towards protectionism...

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Transitions in and out of Unemployment among Young People in the Irish Recession

Kelly, Elish; McGuinness, Seamus; Philip O’Connell; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Young people have been hit hard by unemployment during the Irish recession. While much research has been undertaken to study the effects of the recession on overall labour market dynamics, little is known about the specific effects on youth unemployment and the associated challenges. This paper...

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International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility - Part 1. Drivers of Systemic Banking Crises: The Role of Bank-Balance-Sheet Contagion and Financial Account Structure

Ahrend, Rudiger; Goujard, Antoine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

newly-constructed measures of contagion shocks. These new measures capture well the contagion observed e.g. in the wake of … the Mexican and Asian crises, and confirm that contagion shocks observed in 2009/10 dwarfed those observed during previous … international financial integration are found to amplify contagion shocks and increase crisis risk, such as integration through …

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International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility - Part 6. Are all Forms of Financial Integration Equally Risky in Times of Financial Turmoil?: Asset Price Contagion During t...

Ahrend, Rudiger; Goujard, Antoine - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

integration for asset price contagion in crisis times. Defining contagion as the transmission of financial market movements beyond … the co-movements that would occur in “tranquil” times, the paper looks into the presence of contagion in the period of … formes d'intégration financière sont-elles risquées en cas de chocs financiers? : La contagion des prix des actifs lors de la …

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How Regulatory Reforms in Sweden have boosted Productivity

Erlandsen, Espen; Lundsgaard, Jens - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

The economic crisis in the early 1990s prompted action on reforming the Swedish welfare state and its institutions, including deregulation of a wide range of product markets. In that way, Sweden took early action compared to other OECD countries currently struggling with how to make public...

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Trade Linkages and the Trade Matrices in the OECD Interlink Model

Fouler, Laurence Le; Suyker, Wim; Turner, Dave - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2001

This paper provides a mainly graphical summary of the trade matrices underlying the OECD’s international macroeconomic model Interlink. In doing so it gives a snapshot of the geographical nature of global trading relationships, in particular between individual OECD countries and the main...

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