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Causes of structural unemployment in Finland and Sweden 1990-2004

Fregert, Klas; Pehkonen, Jaakko - 2008

We describe the size and timing for comprehensive as well as decomposed measures of unemployment. We then test for and confirm a change in the structural rate of unemployment by finding structural breaks in the Okun and Beveridge relations. Finally, we employ existing empirical models to examine...

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25 years of "Northern" EU enlargement: 47th Economics Conference 2020 of the OeNB in cooperation with SUERF

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Causes of structural unemployment in Finland and Sweden 1990-2004

Fregert, Klas; Pehkonen, Jaakko - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2008

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The 'Austerity Myth' : Gain Without Pain?

Perotti, Roberto - 2014

- Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency. All four fiscal episodes were associated with an expansion; but only in … sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large depreciation after … wage negotiation process. In Finland and Sweden, the adoption of inflation targeting at the same time of the consolidation …

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25 years of "Northern" EU enlargement : 47th Economics Conference 2020 of the OeNB in cooperation with SUERF

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The Covid-19 lesson from Sweden : don't lockdown

Andersson, Fredrik N. G.; Jonung, Lars - 2023

The coronavirus pandemic triggered strong political action across Europe. Mandatory restrictions to increase social distancing were imposed, commonly known as lockdowns. In some cases, entire countries were virtually locked down for several weeks at a time, contributing to a very severe downturn...

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Stress testing the Nordic models : manufacturing labour adjustments during crisis

Svalund, Jørgen; Bergström Casinowsky, Gunilla; … - In: European journal of industrial relations 19 (2013) 3, pp. 183-200

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Open mouth operations: Monetary policy by threats and arguments : the monthly meetings between the Riksbank and the commercial banks, 1956-73

Jonung, Lars - 2023

After World War II and prior to the financial deregulation of the 1980s, monetary policy in Sweden as well as in other western European countries rested chiefly on a system of far-reaching non-market-oriented controls of credit flows and interest rates. How was monetary policy conducted in such...

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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts

Fregert, Klas; Jonung, Lars - 2008

Inflation targeting was adopted by several countries, including Sweden, in the 1990s. We evaluate the Swedish inflation targeting regime since 1995 using a novel approach based on a unique data set on the characteristics of collective wage agreements between 1908 and 2008. First, we establish...

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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts

Jonung, Lars; Fregert, Klas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-31, pp. 1-25

We evaluate the Swedish inflation targeting regime adopted in 1993−1995 using a novel approach based on a unique data set on the characteristics of collective wage agreements between 1908 and 2008. We find that the inflation targeting regime of 1995−2008 stands out as an exceptionally stable...

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