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16-Oct-2008
Olcay Çulha, Ali Çulha and Rauf Gönenç
Monetary policy has been one of the main pillars of the post-2001 stabilisation programme. Encouraged by its success, the central bank shifted from implicit to explicit inflation targeting in 2006 and set a medium-term inflation target of 4%, applicable from end 2007.
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16-Oct-2008
Hannes Suppanz
Health outcomes and the quality of health care in Iceland are very good by international comparison, while income related health inequality appears to be smaller than in most other countries.
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03-Oct-2008
Rafał Kierzenkowski
Following many years of underinvestment, renovating and building new transport infrastructure is an important policy priority that would increase labour mobility and improve Poland’s competitiveness.
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03-Oct-2008
Rafał Kierzenkowski
Despite a high level of homeownership, the housing market in Poland is suffering from an important shortage.
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15-Sep-2008
Stéphanie Guichard and David Turner
This paper constructs a broad measure of financial conditions for the United States which suggests that since the onset of the credit crisis there has been a marked tightening in financial conditions, despite a substantial easing of policy rates and a depreciation of the dollar.
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01-Sep-2008
Anne-Marie Brook
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them.
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12-Aug-2008
Alexandra Bibbee
In a context of fiscal surpluses,the Canadian government has been: markedly reducing corporate income and capital taxes; providing more personal tax relief especially at lower incomes and above all for saving; and cutting the federal value added tax (GST).
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08-Aug-2008
Nicola Brandt
Establishing stronger vertical separation between network access provision and potentially competitive services will be the main challenge for Germany going forward.
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05-Aug-2008
Peter Jarrett and Shuji Kobayakawa
The agricultural sector in Canada is relatively large, compared to those in most other G7 countries. In recent years, the federal and provincial governments have undertaken a number of sectoral reforms to meet the competitiveness and environmental challenges that it faces.
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05-Aug-2008
Laure Turner and Hervé Boulhol
This paper examines shifts in labour productivity growth in the United States and in Europe between 1970 and 2007 based on econometric tests of structural breaks.
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