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    Japan's Stagnant Nineties: A Vector Autoregression Retrospective

    This paper uses a vector autoregression (VAR) approach to identify the driving forces of the growth slowdown in Japan during the 1990s. Negative shocks to both residential and nonresidential investment are sho...

    Ramana Ramaswamy, Christel Rendu in IMF Staff Papers (2000)

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    Growth, Trade, and Deindustrialization

    This paper shows that deindustrialization is explained primarily by developments that are internal to the advanced economies. These include the combined effects on manufacturing employment of a relatively fast...

    Robert Rowthorn, Ramana Ramaswamy in IMF Staff Papers (1999)

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    The Real Effects of Monetary Policy in the European Union: What Are the Differences?

    The main finding of this paper is that the European Union (EU) countries fall into two broad groups according to the effects of monetary policy adjustments on economic activity. Estimates based on a vector aut...

    Ramana Ramaswamy, Torsten Sløk in Staff Papers (1998)

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    The Structural Crisis in the Swedish Economy: Role of Labor Markets

    This paper argues that Sweden's structural problems of slow productivity growth and high wage inflation can be linked in an important way to the institutional features of its labor market, which is characteriz...

    Ramana Ramaswamy in Staff Papers (1994)