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Global Corporate Bond Issuance : What Role for US Quantitative Easing?
Lo Duca, Marco - 2014
The paper investigates the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on global non-financial corporate bond issuance. It distinguishes between two QE instruments, MBS/GSE debt and Treasury bonds, and disentangles between two channels of transmission of QE to global bond markets, namely flow effects...
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services
D’Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2006
sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the growth of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604671
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Inflation Risk Premia in the US and the Euro Area
Hördahl, Peter - 2010
We use a joint model of macroeconomic and term structure dynamics to estimate inflation risk premia in the United States and the euro area. To sharpen our estimation, we include in the information set macro data and survey data on inflation and interest rate expectations at various future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135685
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Keynesian Government Spending Multipliers and Spillovers in the Euro Area
Cwik, Tobias J. - 2010
The global financial crisis has lead to a renewed interest in discretionary fiscal stimulus. Advocates of discretionary measures emphasize that government spending can stimulate additional private spending — the Keynesian multiplier effect. Thus, we investigate whether the spending package...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136289
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Bank Risk-Taking, Securitization, Supervision and Low Interest Rates : Evidence from the Euro Area and the U.S. Lending Standards
Maddaloni, Angela - 2010
Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138019
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Housing, Consumption and Monetary Policy : How Different are the US and the Euro Area?
Musso, Alberto - 2012
The paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the role of the housing market in the macroeconomy in the US and in the euro area. First, it establishes some stylised facts concerning key variables in the housing market, such as the real house price, residential investment and mortgage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116395
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Inflation Persistence in the European Union, the Euro Area, and the United States
Gadzinski, Gregory - 2011
In this paper we report results on inflation persistence using 79 inflation series covering the EU countries, the euro area and the US for five different inflation variables. The picture that emerges is one of moderate inflation persistence across the board. In particular we find euro area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120765
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Consumer Confidence as a Predictor of Consumption Spending : Evidence for the United States and the Euro Area
Dees, Stephane - 2011
For most academics and policy makers, the depth of the 2007-09 financial crisis, its longevity and its impacts on the real economy resulted from an erosion of confidence. This paper proposes to assess empirically the link between consumer sentiment and consumption expenditures for the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124648
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Fiscal policy and the Great Recession in the Euro Area
Coenen, Günter - 2012
How much did fiscal policy contribute to euro area real GDP growth during the Great Recession? We estimate that discretionary fiscal measures have increased annualized quarterly real GDP growth during the crisis by up to 1.6 percentage points. We obtain our result by using an extended version of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108718
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Fiscal Stimulus in Times of High Debt : Reconsidering Multipliers and Twin Deficits
Nickel, Christiane - 2013
We investigate the impact of fiscal stimuli at different levels of the government debt-to-GDP-ratio for a sample of 17 European countries from 1970 to 2010. This is implemented in an interacted panel VAR framework in which all coefficient parameters are allowed to change continuously with the...
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