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Following theory, we check that funding risk connects illiquidity, volatility and returns in the cross-section of stocks. We show that the illiquidity and volatility of stocks increase with funding shocks, while contemporaneous returns decrease with funding shocks. The dispersions of...
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In this paper, we analyze the dynamic behaviour of employment and hours worked per worker in a stochastic general … using the Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) estimation technique. An increase in government spending raises hours worked … per worker, and crowds out private consumption due to a negative wealth effect. On the path converging towards the steady …
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This paper studies the interdependence between fiscal and monetary policy in a DSGE model with sticky prices and non-zero trend inflation. We characterize the fiscal and monetary policies by a rule whereby a given fraction k of the government debt must be backed by the discounted value of...
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Inflation dynamics in advanced countries have produced two consecutive puzzles during the years after the global financial crisis. The first puzzle emerged when inflation rates over the period 2009-11 were consistently higher than expected, although economic slack in advanced countries reached...
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We build an otherwise-standard business cycle model with housework, calibrated consistently with data on time use, in order to discipline consumption-hours complementarity and relate its strength to the size of fiscal multipliers. We show that if substitutability between home and market goods is...
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The paper explores the macroeconomic consequences of fiscal consolidations whose timing and composition - either tax …- or spending-based - are uncertain. We find that the composition of the fiscal consolidation, its duration, the monetary …
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of housing-related tax policy measures on macroeconomic aggregates using a …-occupied housing. Using our model, we analyze the effects of changes in housing-related tax policy measures on the level of output, tax … revenue and household debt, along with other macroeconomic aggregates. The tax policies we consider are (i) increasing …
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and Muir 2007). In particular, she examines the global macroeconomic implications of the expiration of major tax cuts in … that the expiration of previously enacted tax cuts in the United States will impose short-run costs on the U.S. economy …
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Entrepreneurship is a key factor in promoting growth in output and employment. Consequently, to encourage new start-ups, most governments in developed countries have public venture capital programs. The authors develop a model that endogenously determines the number of entrepreneurs and the...
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Choosing a well-designed framework for fiscal and monetary policies is a challenge for economic authorities. Although they have chosen the same objectives to promote economic growth—price stability and fiscal sustainability—the Canadian and European economic authorities have adopted...
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