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(A)symetria v Okunovom zákone v štátoch Vyšehradskej skupiny
[(A)symmetry in Okun's Law in the Visegrad Group Countries]

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  • Martin Boďa
  • Petra Medveďová
  • Mariana Považanová

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Having regard to the importance of the compensation effect between output and unemployment known as Okun's law for both contemporary economic theory and for practical economic policy, the intent of the paper is to examine the empirical validity of Okun's law for the four Visegrad Group countries with consideration given to possible asymmetry. Using the quarterly data for the period from Q1/1998 and Q2/2014 and its gap version, Okun's law is verifi ed for each investigated country and some specifi cs of labour markets are highlighted so as to explain the magnitude of the estimated Okun's coeffi cients. The contribution of the paper is two-fold. First, this empirical relationship is confi rmed in validity with attention directed to the foursome of countries. Second, the analysis utilizes the non-linear ARDL model proposed in the paper to accommodate possible nonlinearity and asymmetry in Okun's law. Asymmetry is found and economically reasoned by the specifi cs of the labour market only for Slovakia since there appears to be a different reaction of the unemployment gap to positive output gap and to negative one.

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  • Martin Boďa & Petra Medveďová & Mariana Považanová, 2015. "(A)symetria v Okunovom zákone v štátoch Vyšehradskej skupiny [(A)symmetry in Okun's Law in the Visegrad Group Countries]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2015(6), pages 741-758.
    • Handle: RePEc:prg:jnlpol:v:2015:y:2015:i:6:id:1024:p:741-758
    DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.1024
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    Keywords

    Okun's law; gap version; ARDL model; asymmetric non-linear ARDL model; V4 countries;
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    JEL classification:

    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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