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application to a credit shock and additional examples highlight the broad relevance of the suggested methods …
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-2022. Third, the reallocation of consumption between goods and service sectors, a relative sector-level demand shock, played a …
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This paper investigates the response of real wages and hours worked to an exogenous shock in fiscal policy. We identify … this shock with the dynamic response of government purchases and tax rates to an exogenous increase in military purchases …
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. Specifically, we use sign restrictions to identify a government revenue shock as well as a government spending shock, while … controlling for a generic business cycle shock and a monetary policy shock. We explicitly allow for the possibility of … announcement effects, i.e., that a current fiscal policy shock changes fiscal policy variables in the future, but not at present …
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to which the leading shock candidates can explain fluctuations in output and hours. It concludes that we are much closer …
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An impulse response is the dynamic average effect of an intervention across horizons. We use the well-known Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to explore a response's heterogeneity over time and over states of the economy. This can be implemented with a simple extension to the usual local...
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A central question in applied research is to estimate the effect of an exogenous intervention or shock on an outcome …
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A network/search view of international trade in differentiated products is proposed. It is shown that this view can explain the importance of ethnic and extended family ties in trade, the success of diversified trading intermediaries such as Japan's sogo shosha, and the ubiquity of government...
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We propose a new way to construct instruments in a broad class of economic environments: "granular instrumental variables" (GIVs). In the economies we study, a few large firms, in- dustries or countries account for an important share of economic activity. As the idiosyncratic shocks from these...
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The 'International Policy Trilemma' refers to the constraint on independent monetary policy that is forced on a country which remains open to international financial markets and simultaneously pursues an exchange rate target. This paper shows that, in a global economy with open financial...
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