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The possible short-run trade-off between the inflation (gap) and the output (gap) remains a critical policy issue for … any emerging economy; particularly when an implicit or an explicit inflation targeting monetary policy is considered. The … New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) has recently set up a framework on the trade-off between the inflation (gap) and the …
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major role on the phase of the short-term interest rates in Eastern European countries implementing inflation targeting …
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formulate a model of financing. New Keynesian theory emphasizes that a firm’s net worth influences investment decisions and …
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We reconsider the potential for explaining inter-industry wage differences by decomposing those differences into parts due to individual and employer heterogeneity, respectively. Using longitudinally linked employer-employee data, we estimate the model for the United States and France. The part...
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The purpose of the paper is to analyse how labour market and labour market institutions reacted during recent crises. In early 1990s Estonia introduced a set of rather unique policy options like currency board as a ground for monetary policy, low taxes, open foreign trade policy, low public...
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This paper examines responses to questions on wage setting features in Slovenia’s Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) survey in the institutional and macroeconomic context of the Slovene economy. The question on collective wage agreement did not capture the prevailing institutional arrangement of...
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This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This mechanism is based on the relative costs of dismissing young versus older workers resulting from job security provisions that are related to tenure. Using 39 consecutive annual...
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. -- unemployment dynamics ; structural multi-equation models ; chain reaction theory ; simulations ; PIGS …
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The way age-specific unemployment rates fluctuate over the business cycle differs significantly across countries. This paper examines the effect of labor-market institutions on the fluctuations of age-specific unemployment rates based on panel data of 18 OECD countries between 1971 and 2008....
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