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. We document two new facts using VAR methods. First, a (positive) shock to future TFP generates a significant decline in …, VAR methods also establish a tight link between TFP news shocks and shocks that explain the majority of un … for the propagation of news shocks. A DSGE model enriched with a financial sector generates very similar quantitative …
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This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
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Oil market VAR models have become the standard tool for understanding the evolution of the real price of oil and its … examine alternative oil market VAR models. We help the reader understand why the latter models sometimes generated … supply shocks that have been used as external or internal instruments for VAR models …
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We propose a novel identification strategy to measure monetary policy in a structural VAR. It is based exclusively on … residuals of the policy rule equation at these shock dates accordingly. In spite of its utmost agnostic nature, this approach …
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output) shortly after a monetary policy shock. To overcome this problem, we propose to estimate the VAR parameters under the …Recursively identified vector autoregressive (VAR) models often lead to a counterintuitive response of prices (and … restriction that economic theory is not violated, while the shocks are still recursively identified. We solve this optimization …
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In this paper we explore the implication of a morbidity risk for the relationship between longevity and annuitization. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We show that a rise in the survival rate causes different...
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This paper bolsters Prescott's (2004) claim that high taxes are responsible for lacklustre labor market performance in continental European countries. We develop a lifecycle model with endogenous skill formation, endogenous labor supply, and endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not...
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The aging of the populations in the OECD countries has prompted various calls for reforming the existing pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension systems. Currently, there is renewed discussion in the United States about partial privatization where a fraction of the social security payroll tax would be...
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This paper investigates the role of discount rate heterogeneity for wealth inequality. The key idea is to infer the distribution of preference parameters from the observed age profile of wealth inequality. The contribution of preference heterogeneity to wealth inequality can then be measured...
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Employing an endogenous growth model with human capital, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours. Given the importance of accounting for both the...
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