Title:The Unemployment Problem
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.Date:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper reviews the unemployment problem in Europe. It shows that while there is a good deal of heterogeneity in European unemployment experience, a 'European model' of high and persistent unemployment characterizes many ...
Title:The US and the European Monetary System (EMS): A Stylised Asymmetrical Two-Country Model
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; GAZIOGLU, S.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Numerical simulation methods were used to explore the consequences of asymmetrical behaviour in a two-country model. The asymmetries are located in the asset and goods demand functions and in the parameters governing foreign ...
Title:The US trade deficit, the decline of the WTO and the rise of regionalism
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper argues that the growing US trade deficit has caused the decline of the WTO and the rise of regional trade agreements. Growing imbalances make countries more selective about who to cooperate with. This is formally ...
Title:The Variable Frame Theory of Focal Points: An Experimental Study
Author(s):BACHARACH, M.; BERNASCONI, MicheleDate:1997Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In variable frame theory a game is played rationally, but which game gets played is determined by nonrational (e.g., perceptual) player characteristics. These determine their ''frames''-the sets of attributes of the objects ...
Title:Threshold Learning Dynamics in Social Networks
Author(s):GONZÁLEZ-AVELLA, Juan Carlos; EGUÍLUZ, Victor M.; MARSILI, Matteo; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando; SAN MIGUEL, MaxiDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Social learning is defined as the ability of a population to aggregate information, a process which must crucially depend on the mechanisms of social interaction. Consumers choosing which product to buy, or voters deciding ...
Title:To Begrudge Or Not to Begrudge: Consumption and Leisure Externalities Revisited
Author(s):DUERNECKER, GeorgDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article employs a dynamic general equilibrium model to study the implications of a nonstandard preference structure for the short-run dynamics of the economy. Preferences in this model are assumed to contain comparison ...
Title:Trade Interdependence and the International-Business Cycle
Author(s):CANOVA, Fabio; DELLAS, H.Date:1993Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy is developed to analyze the contribution of trade interdependence to international business cycles. We test some of the implications of the model using data from ...
Title:Trade Liberalization, Firm Selection, and Variety Growth
Author(s):AGUR, ItaiDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Recent empirical findings indicate that when trade is liberalized both firm selection takes place and product variety increases. Each of these two stylized facts has its own seminal theory. But how can they arise together? ...
Title:Transboundary Air-Pollution in Europe - An Interactive Multicriteria Tradeoff Analysis
Author(s):STAM, Antonie; KUULA, Markku; CESAR, Herman S. J.Date:1992Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, the acid rain problem in Europe is discussed, stressing the transboundary tradeoffs between abatement costs of sulphur emission reduction and corresponding deposition levels in the different countries. An ...
Title:Transmission of German Monetary Policy in the Pre-Euro Period
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; WOLTERS, JürgenDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose, quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data ...
Title:Trusting the Stock Market
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study the effect that a general lack of trust can have on stock market participation. In deciding whether to buy stocks, investors factor in the risk of being cheated. The perception of this risk is a function of the ...
Title:Twin Deficit: Squaring Theory, Evidence and Common Sense
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Simple accounting suggests that shocks to the government budget move the current account in the same direction, and this `twin deficits' intuition leads many observers to call for fiscal consolidation in the US as a necessary ...
Title:Twin Deficits, Openness, and the Business Cycle
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this article, we study the co-movement of the government budget balance and the trade balance at business-cycle frequencies. In a sample of 10 OECD countries we find that the correlation of the two time series is negative, ...
Title:Unit Root and Cointegration Testing: Guest Editors' Introduction
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; RODRIGUES, Paulo M. M.Date:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:By pointing out the spurious regression problem, Granger and Newbold (1974) have shown the importance of stochastic trends in time series data in the context of linear regression models. At the time, removing trends by ...