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Catching-Up, Inflation Differentials and Credit Booms in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union : Some Implications for Emu and New EU Member States
MacDonald, Ronald - 2013
In this paper we propose an alternative explanation for the nature, sources and consequences of inflation rate differentials in a monetary union, such as EMU. To achieve this, we build on the new neoclassical synthesis (NNS) framework, recently advanced by Goodfriend (2002) and Goodfriend and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754168
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On the Linkages between Stock Prices and Exchange Rates : Evidence from the Banking Crisis of 2007-2010
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
This study examines the nature of the linkages between stock market prices and exchange rates in six advanced economies, namely the US, the UK, Canada, Japan, the euro area, and Switzerland, using data on the banking crisis between 2007 and 2010. Bivariate GARCH-BEKK models are estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083258
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Did US Consumers 'Save for a Rainy Day' Before the Great Recession?
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Nymoen, Ragnar - CESifo - 2015
The ‘saving for a rainy day’ hypothesis implies that households’ saving decisions reflect that they can (rationally) predict future income declines. The empirical relevance of this hypothesis plays a key role in discussions of fiscal policy multipliers and it holds under the null that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278934
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Spend-and-Tax : A Panel Data Investigation for the EU
Afonso, António - 2009
, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158140
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Central Bank Policy Rates : Are They Cointegrated?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2017
the US, the Eurozone, Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK using fractional integration and cointegration techniques …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958879
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Linkages between the US and European Stock Markets : A Fractional Cointegration Approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the … both the S&P 500 Index and the Euro Stoxx 50 Index. Also, fractional cointegration appears to hold at least for the … diverging growth and monetary policy. Establishing whether the degree of cointegration has changed over time is important since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013497
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China's Current Account and Exchange Rate
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013
We examine whether the Chinese exchange rate is misaligned and how Chinese trade flows respond to the exchange rate and to economic activity. We find, first, that the Chinese currency, the renminbi (RMB), is substantially below the value predicted by estimates based upon a cross-country sample,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753166
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Catching-Up and Credit Booms in Central and Eastern European EU Member States and Acceding Countries : An Interpretation within the New Neoclassical Synthesis Framework
Backe, Peter - 2013
Credit to the private sector has risen rapidly in many Central and Eastern European EU Member States (MS) and acceding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754091
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On the Influence of Oil Prices on Stock Markets : Evidence from Panel Analysis in GCC Countries
Arouri, Mohamed; Rault, Christophe - 2021
This paper implements recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and Seemingly Unrelated regression (SUR) methods … October 2008, and from January 1996 to December 2007, our investigation shows that there is evidence for cointegration of oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316349
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Real Options and Human Capital Investment
Jacobs, Bas - 2007
This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influence investment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individuals can affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant to invest in human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776903