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In den 90er Jahren hat die deutsche Wirtschaft bei forschungsintensiven Waren und wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen im internationalen Vergleich etwas an Boden verloren, insbesondere gegenüber den USA. Deutschland ist es im letzten Jahrzehnt weniger gut gelungen, die Potentiale an...
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Die Rohölpreise bewegen sich seit Anfang 2000 meist in dem von der OPEC angestrebten Band zwischen 22 und 28 US-Dollar je Barrel. Mitte Dezember 2002 sind sie aufgrund von streikbedingten Produktionsausfällen in Venezuela über den oberen Rand dieses Korridors geklettert, wegen der...
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Im Euroraum und vor allem in Deutschland hat sich die Konjunktur seit dem Boom der "New Economy" lange Zeit nur verhalten entwickelt. Ein wesentlicher Grund dafür war die schwache Dynamik der Binnennachfrage, insbesondere der Konsumausgaben der privaten Haushalte. Sie haben in Deutschland in...
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Der rasche Ausbau der Breitbandinfrastruktur wird als Schlüssel für die Nutzung der Potentiale der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) angesehen. Die durch das Internet geschaffene weltweite IK-Infrastruktur und die sukzessive Steigerung der Übertragungsbandbreiten leisten...
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We use a panel of 16 OECD countries over several decades to investigate the effects of government debts and deficits on long-term interest rates. In simple static specifications, a one-percentage-point increase in the primary deficit relative to GDP increases contemporaneous long-term interest...
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In this paper, we show that, contrary to common beliefs, over the past two decades several countries were able to reduce public spending by remarkable amounts. These countries did not seem to have suffered from these large reductions either in a macroeconomic sense, or in terms of lower values...
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In this paper we review the linkages between the quality of public finances, that is, the level and composition of public expenditure and its financing via revenue and deficits, and economic growth. We review the various channels through which public finances affect growth and its underlying...
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This paper studies the role of long-term unemployment in the determination of prices and wages. Labor market theories such as insider-outsider models predict that this type of unemployed are less relevant in the wage formation process than the newly unemployed. This paper looks for evidence of...
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In most OECD countries, we cannot reject up to three breaks in the mean of inflation: one break in the late 1960’s-early 1970’s, one in the early-mid 1980’s and another break in the early 1990’s. These breaks tend to be associated more often to breaks in the mean of nominal variables...
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We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the educational system of 25, mostly OECD, countries with resources employed (teachers per student, time spent at school). We estimate a semi-parametric model of the education production...
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