Market power and fiscal policy in OECD countries

We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show tha...

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Main Author: Afonso, António (author)
Other Authors: Costa, Luís F. (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/2160
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/2160