Pedro Amaral

Publication List Details

Period

2001 - 2001

Number

8

Co-Authors

The 1990s in Japan: A Lost Decade (2001)

Fumio Hayashi, Edward C. Prescott, Sami Alp, Pedro Amaral, Igor Livshits

This paper offers a new explanation for the chronic slump: Japan in the 1990s was in a transition to a new and lower steady state growth path. The transition occurred because the growth rate of the...

Trade and the Canadian Great Depression

Jim MacGee, Pedro Amaral

Great Depression, Canada, productivity, terms of trade

The implications of capital-skill complementarity in economies with large informal sectors

Pedro Amaral, Erwan Quintin

In most developing nations, formal workers tend to be more experienced, more educated, and earn more than informal workers. These facts are often interpreted as evidence that low-skill workers face...

The Great Depression in Canada and the United States: A Neoclassical Perspective

Pedro Amaral, James C. MacGee

Canada suffered a major depression from 1929 to 1939. In terms of output, it was similar to the Great Depression in the United States. However, total factor productivity (TFP) in Canada did not...

Financial Intermediation and TFP Differences

Erwan Quintin, Pedro Amaral

Countries differ markedly with respect to income per capita. These differences cannot be accounted for by differences in factors of production, which means that measured TFP varies significantly...

Data Appendix to The Great Depression in Canada and the United States: A Neoclassical Perspective

Pedro Amaral, James Macgee

Detailed macroeconomic data to accompany the article in the Review of Economic Dynamics