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Thierfelder, Felix - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …

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Does anticipation of government spending matter? Evidence from an expectation augmented VAR

Tenhofen, Jörn; Wolff, Guntram B. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007

How does private consumption react to an exogenous increase in government expenditure? Standard structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) usually report a positive GDP as well as consumption response, while event studies report a negative consumption response. We investigate in a SVAR whether...

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The macroeconomic effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Germany: a disaggregated SVAR analysis

Wolff, Guntram B.; Tenhofen, Jörn; Heppke-Falk, Kirsten H. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006

We investigate the short-term effects of fiscal policy shocks on the German economy following the SVAR approach by Blanchard and Perotti (2002). We find that direct government expenditure shocks increase output and private consumption on impact with low statistical significance, while they...

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The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates

Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004

Recent work on policy rules under uncertainty have highlighted the impact of output gap measurement errors on economic outcomes and their importance in the formulation of appropriate policy rules. This paper investigates the reliability of current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin...

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