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Applied Economics | 2002

An analysis on the structural stability of Okun's law--a cross-country study

Leopold Sögner; Alfred Stiassny

Okuns law postulates an inverse relationship between movements of the unemployment rate and the real gross domestic product (GDP). This article investigates Okuns law for 15 OECD countries and checks for its the structural stability. By using data on employment and the labour force whether structural instability is caused either from the demand side or supply side is inferred.


Journal of Policy Modeling | 1998

Tax and Spend, or Spend and Tax? An International Study

Stephan Koren; Alfred Stiassny

Abstract The aim of this contribution is to discriminate between the rivaling spend and tax and tax and spend hypotheses in order to check empirically the relationship between government spending and taxation decisions in nine industrialized countries. For that purpose, the authors estimate a trivariate structural VAR model for each countrys public sector that includes besides expenditures and revenues, aggregate income as an additional variable. They implement impulse-response functions and frequency domain techniques in order to identify the causal relation between government outlays and receipts. The budget-making process is interpreted as an error-correction model that allows to estimate to what extent revenues and expenditures are adjusted whenever the government sees its long-run budget constraint violated. The empirical findings strongly support the spend and tax view that budget decision-making is significantly dominated by the expenditure side in Italy, Austria, and France. The opposite (tax and spend hypotheses) seems to be true for the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. For Switzerland and Sweden neither forces are apparent.


Empirica | 1995

Tax and spend or spend and tax? An empirical investigation for Austria

Stephan Koren; Alfred Stiassny

The aim of this contribution is to discriminate between the rivallingspend and tax andtax and spend hypotheses in order to check empirically the relationship between government spending and taxation decisions in Austria. For that purpose, the authors estimate a tri-variate structural VAR Model of Austrias public sector that, besides expenditures and revenues, includes aggregate income as an additional variable. They implement impulse-response functions and frequency domain techniques in order to identify the causal relation between government outlays and receipts. The budget making process is interpreted as an error correction model which allows to estimate to what extent revenues and expenditures are adjusted whenever the government sees its long run budget constraint violate. The empirical findings strongly support the spend and tax view that budget decision-making is significantly dominated by the expenditure side in Austria.


Empirical Economics | 1996

A Spectral Decomposition for Structural VAR Models

Alfred Stiassny

Based on structural VARs, this paper proposes a spectral decomposition which allows to infer the effects of changes in one variable on the other variables in the frequency domain. It is shown that there is a close relationship between this concept and conventional forecast error variance decomposition techniques for VARs. An empirical example demonstrates the usefulness of this additional tool in analyzing the relationships among time series.


Empirica | 1985

The Austrian Phillips Curve reconsidered

Alfred Stiassny

ZusammenfassungDen Ausgangspunkt für diese Arbeit bildet die manchmal behauptete Stabilität der österreichischen Phillipskurve. In dieser Arbeit wird nun zu zeigen versucht, daß diese Stabilität auf den Umstand zurückzuführen ist, daß bei den bisherigen Untersuchungen stets implizit angenommen wurde, die gleichgewichtige (natürliche) Arbeitslosenrate habe sich im Zeitablauf nicht verändert.Wird diese Annahme fallengelassen und ein trendmäßiges Sinken der gleichgewichtigen Arbeislosenrate zugelassen, so weist dann eine auf dieser Grundlage geschätzte Phillipskurve einen signifikanten Strukturbruch zwischen sechziger und siebziger Jahren auf; die Phillipskurve hat sich nun nach oben verschoben.Im zweiten Teil dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, ob die beobachteten Inflationszyklen mit der entsprechenden Standardtheorie vonGrossman (1974) nachvollziehbar sind. Dies kann mit Einschränkungen bejaht werden.


Empirica | 1990

Long-term impacts of import prices on domestic prices and wages

Alfred Stiassny

ZusammenfassungAnhand österreichischer Quartalsdaten wurde untersucht, ob zwischen Preisen, Reallöhnen, Importpreisen und anderen Variablen kointegrierende Beziehungen bestehen. Da für die untersuchten Zeitreihen mehrere Kointegrationsvektoren gefunden wurden, ergab sich ein Interpretationsproblem. In dieser Arbeit wurde der Kointegrationsraum auf eine Weise transformiert, die es ermöglichte, die Kointegrationsvektoren als “Long-run”-Multiplikatoren zu interpretieren und daher die langfristigen Auswirkungen einer Importpreiserhöhung auf das heimische Lohn- und Preisniveau zu untersuchen. (Der Anhang beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, unter welchen Voraussetzungen solch eine “kausale” Interpretation möglich ist.) Die geschätzten Effekte erwiesen sich als numerisch sehr bedeutend — sie liegen etwas höher als in anderen vergleichbaren empirischen Studien — und gegenüber einer Änderung der Auswahl der Variablen als sehr robust.


Archive | 1994

A Note on Frequency Domain Properties of Estimated VARs

Alfred Stiassny


Archive | 2002

Estimating Marginal Costs for the Austrian Railway System

Gerhard Munduch; Alexander Pfister; Leopold Sögner; Alfred Stiassny


Archive | 2000

A Cross-Country Study on Okun's Law

Leopold Soegner; Alfred Stiassny


Empirica | 1998

Wage Setting and Hysteresis in Unemployment

Alfred Stiassny

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Gerhard Munduch

Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Alexander Pfister

Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Christina Uhl

Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Herbert Walther

Vienna University of Economics and Business

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