The Needle in the Haystack : What Drives Labor and Product Market Reforms in Advanced Countries? /

The political economy literature has put forward a multitude of hypotheses regarding the drivers of structural reforms, but few, if any, empirically robust findings have emerged thus far. To make progress, we draw a parallel with model uncertainty in the growth literature and provide a new version o...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Duval, Romain
مؤلفون آخرون: Furceri, Davide, Miethe, Jakob
التنسيق: دورية
اللغة:English
منشور في: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
سلاسل:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/101
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:Full text available on IMF
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