East German manufacturers’ revenue productivity is substantially below West levels, even three decades after unification. Using firm-product-level data with product quantities and prices, we analyze the role of specialization show that prominent “extended work bench hypothesis” cannot explain these sustained differences. Eastern firms specialize in simpler varieties generating less consumer val...

The ultimate goal of monetary policy is to achieve price stability and high output. In this regard, central banks usually change the interest rate, liquidity, and money base in order to apply monetary policies. The John B. Taylor rule is one of the rules known in the transmission of monetary policy.[1] Based on this rule and given the output gap and inflation gap, the central bank increases or ...

The most popular method of measuring structural budget balances is the “gaps plus elasticities” approach. In this paper, it is argued that the idiosyncratic features of an economy need to be accounted for properly when seeking to achieve good estimates of structural budget balances using this method. The first step in this approach involves measuring the economy’s potential output in order to i...

this paper studies the usefulness of the p-model in the analysis of the behaviour of prices in iranian economy. the p-model is based on the quantity of theory of money. this model believes that the price level tends to move towards the equilibrium price level. the model uses price gap to forecast inflation, if the equilibrium price is greater than the current price, there is a tendency for the ...