Improving Competition in the Non-Tradable Goods and Labour Markets: The Portuguese Case [PDF]
This study assesses the macroeconomic impacts of increasing competition in the non-tradable goods and labour markets in Portugal. We lean on evidence that the maintenance of low competition in these markets may have contributed to the recent poor ...
Gabriela Lopes de Castro +2 more
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Local multipliers in OECD regions [PDF]
A key aspect of understanding how regions grow is the interplay between jobs in the tradable and jobs in the non-tradable sector. Jobs in the tradable sector supply the world market and can therefore move from region to region, but every region has a ...
Dijk, Jasper Van
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TRADABLE AND NON-TRADABLE RIGHT FROM ISLAMIC LAW OF CONTRACTS PERSPECTIVE
Islam advocates the protection of all types of Rights. However, each and every type of Right is not directly regulated by Shari’ah (Islamic Law) while the principles of Shari’ah can be construed to provide support for such regulation and protection. To the best of our knowledge, there is no such paper which efficiently talks about the tradable and non ...
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A Spatial Explanation for the Balassa-Samuelson Effect [PDF]
We propose a simple spatial model to explain why the price level is higher in rich countries. There are two sectors: manufacturing, which is freely tradable, and non-tradable services, which have to locate near customers in big cities.
Miklós Koren, Péter Karádi
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Great Appreciations: Accounting for the Real Exchange Rate in Mexico, 1988-2002 [PDF]
Between 1988 and 2002, the real exchange rate in Mexico appreciated by 45%. We account for this movement in relative prices using a two sector, dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy with tradable an non-tradable goods.
Carlos Urrutia, Felipe Meza
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Local multipliers in tradables and non-tradables
In this thesis, I study the local employment multiplier effect; the effect of employment in the tradable sector on employment in the non-tradable sector of the same region. Using a reduced form regression with a shift-share instrument I find a significant local multiplier effect in Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the USA.
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Bridging the divide how reform consensus can unite Australia’s three economies [PDF]
In this report Daniel Mookhey argues that Australia is splitting into three economies, which are increasingly inequitable, and unnecessarily adversarial.
Daniel Mookhey
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Reallocation of Resources within the National Productive System in Bolivia: A View from the Perspective of Tradable and Non-Tradable Goods [PDF]
This paper explores Bolivia’s current unemployment situation taking into account the reallocation of resources within the aggregate supply. The origin of this internal imbalance is due to negative impacts of external real exchange rate (RER) shocks, as ...
Sergio G. Villarroel-Böhrt
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Fiscal multipliers in Ireland using FIR-GEM model. ESRI WP636, September 2019 [PDF]
This article employs the newly developed FIR-GEM model to compute fiscal multipliers in Ireland for the main tax-spending policy instruments, namely government consumption, public investment, public wages, public transfers, consumption, capital and ...
Varthalitis, Petros
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Expenditure elasticities for rural households in the Embo ward, Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal [PDF]
Household consumption patterns were investigated to determine the impact of an income shock on household expenditure and to establish the potential for demand-led growth in a rural area of KwaZulu-Natal.
Browne, M. +2 more
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