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We examine the composition and drivers of cross-border bank lending between 1995 and 2012, distinguishing between syndicated and non-syndicated loans. We show that on-balance sheet syndicated loan exposures, which account for almost one third of total cross-border loan exposures, increased...
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findings of excess sensitivity of consumption and asset prices to new information. …
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. The variance of agent valuations determines how quickly prices adjust following a shock to fundamentals. We examine the …
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sector-specific TFPs based solely on factor prices and the relative price of intermediate goods to final goods over the 1959 …
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This paper analyzes how a model where goods are endogenously nontraded can help explain the relationship between the current account and real exchange rate fluctuations. We formulate a small open economy two-period model in which goods switch endogenously between being traded or nontraded. The...
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-founded dynamic general equilibrium (DGE) model of the U.S. economy with sticky wages and sticky prices using impulse responses to … permanent technology shock, implying that, on average, prices adjust quickly and that there is little evidence for any intrinsic …
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Long-run cross-country price data exhibit a puzzle. Today, richer countries exhibit higher price levels than poorer countries, a stylized fact usually attributed to the “Balassa-Samuelson” effect. But looking back fifty years, or more, this effect virtually disappears from the data. What is...
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Whether prices are pro- or counter-cyclical represents a major difference in the predictions of models that focus on … supply. Earlier studies have interpreted their finding of generally negative cross-correlations between output and prices in … generated them, or whether prices are best characterized as pro- or counter-cyclical. In fact, negative price output …
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processes in the two sectors. Restrictions from this model are used with data on wages and prices to construct measures of …
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