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Investment Under Rational Inattention : Evidence from US Sectoral Data
Zorn, Peter - 2020
Macroeconomic and sector-specific shocks exert differential effects on investment in disaggregate sectoral data. The … monotonically. A calibrated model of investment with convex capital adjustment costs and rational inattention explains these … features of the data. The model matches the empirical responses of sectoral investment because learning about shocks generates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827670
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Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2019
Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory transfers can support a Pareto-improving reform. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892197
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External monetary shocks and monetary integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
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Macroeconomic factors and micro-level bank risk
Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - 2010
The interplay between banks and the macroeconomy is of key importance for financial and economic stability. We analyze this link using a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) which extends a standard VAR for the U.S. macroeconomy. The model includes GDP growth, inflation, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274932
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Productivity Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Estimated Endogenous Growth Model with Human Capital
Malley, Jim - 2011
human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120659
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock : Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834873
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
networks. In this paper we incorporate production barriers induced by COVID-19 shock into a Ricardian model with sectoral … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …. Moreover, we show that global production linkages have a clear role in magnifying the effect of the production shock. Finally …
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Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks in the Euro Area and the Sovereign-Bank Nexus
Hristov, Nikolay - 2020
We explore the effects of the ECB's unconventional monetary policy on the banks' sovereign debt portfolios. In particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond holdings in response to non-standard monetary policy shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838235
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The Econometrics of Oil Market VAR Models
Kilian, Lutz - 2020
Oil market VAR models have become the standard tool for understanding the evolution of the real price of oil and its impact in the macro economy. As this literature has expanded at a rapid pace, it has become increasingly difficult for mainstream economists to understand the differences between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839764
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Going Back to School Takes Time : Evidence from a Negative Trade Shock
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2020
We estimate the impact of a negative trade shock on labour market outcomes and educational choices of workers. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841620