We analyze the implications for the dynamics of capitalaccumulation of market power and endogenous demand elasticities, in anenvironment in which the latter are affected by the number of competitorsin each industry. In equilibrium the interest rate increases as capitalaccumulates, even though...

This paper investigates empirically and attempts to identify the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations since the collapse of Bretton Woods. The paper's first two sections survey and extend earlier, non-structural empirical work on this subject by Campbell and Clarida (1987), Meese and...

Economics

Los autores presentan evidencia sobre el ajuste de la Nueva Curva de Phillips para el area del euro durante el periodo 1970-1998. Utilizan esta evidencia para comparar las caracteristicas dinamicas de la inflacion en el area del euro y en Estados Unidos. Ademas, estudian los factores...

A partir de un modelo teorico, se presenta una medida de las variaciones en el grado de eficiencia ligadas a las fluctuaciones ciclicas de una economia. Este indicador (gap) se descompone en dos componentes: un margen de precios y un marge de salarios, siendo este ultimo el que contribuye en...

We construct a measure of Euro area cyclical effficiency, following the approach developed in Galí, Gertler and López-Salido (2002).Our measure -wich we call “the gap”- corresponds to the inverse of price over social marginal cost. Here we present a time series of this gap for the Euro...