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Exploring the International Linkages of the Euro Area : A Global VAR Analysis

Dees, Stephane - 2006

This paper presents a global model linking individual country vector error-correcting models in which the domestic variables are related to the country-specific variables as an approximate solution to a global common factor model. This global VAR is estimated for 26 countries, the euro area...

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Is There a Debt-Threshold Effect on Output Growth?

Chudik, Alexander - 2015

This paper studies the long-run impact of public debt expansion on economic growth and investigates whether the debt-growth relation varies with the level of indebtedness. Our contribution is both theoretical and empirical. On the theoretical side, we develop tests for threshold effects in the...

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Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective

Dees, Stephane; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; … - 2021

number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to the underlying macroeconomic theory. The first …

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The Growth Effect of Democracy : Is It Heterogenous and How Can it Be Estimated?

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - 2021

We estimate the effect of political regime transitions on growth with semi-parametric methods, combining difference in differences with matching, that have not been used in macroeconomic settings. Our semi-parametric estimates suggest that previous parametric estimates may have seriously...

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Dissecting the PPP Puzzle : The Unconventional Roles of Nominal Exchange Rate and Price Adjustments

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Lai, Kon S.; Bergman, U. Michael - 2021

The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion rate. This study examines the mechanism by which PPP deviations are corrected. Nominal exchange rate adjustment, not price adjustment, is shown to be the key engine governing the...

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Supply, Demand and Monetary Policy Shocks in a Multi-Country New Keynesian Model

Dees, Stephane - 2013

-specific foreign output variable to capture direct inter-country linkages. In accord with the theory all variables are measured as … restrictions implied by the NK theory. The multi-country DSGE NK model is then solved to provide estimates of identified supply …

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A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of International Reserves

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

Using data from more than 100 economies for the period of 1975 to 2005, we conduct an extensive empirical analysis of the determinants of international reserve holdings. Four groups of determinants, namely, traditional macro variables, financial variables, institutional variables, and dummy...

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A Multiple Testing Approach to the Regularisation of Large Sample Correlation Markets

Bailey, Natalia - 2014

This paper proposes a novel regularisation method for the estimation of large covariance matrices, which makes use of insights from the multiple testing literature. The method tests the statistical significance of individual pair-wise correlations and sets to zero those elements that are not...

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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021

-run output equation with a coefficient equal to the share of capital (α). The long-run theory is tested using quarterly data on … results support the long-run theory. The existence of long-run relations between real output, foreign output and real oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy’s steady state growth …

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