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Trade shocks and macroeconomic fluctuations in Africa

Kose, M. Ayhan; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 1999

This paper examines the role of external shocks in explaining macroeconomic fluctuations in African countries. We construct a quantitative, stochastic, dynamic, multi-sector equilibrium model of a small open economy calibrated to represent a typical African economy. In our framework, external...

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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks

Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018

local economic shocks across Africa. We further show how counterfactual exercises based on these estimates and the …

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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis

Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...

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We don't need no education : the effect of income shocks on human capital in Africa

Grâdšṭayn, Marq; Ishak, Phoebe W. - 2024

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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis

Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU …

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Monetary policy transmission and house prices : European cross-country evidence

Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009

This paper explores the importance of housing and mortgage market heterogeneity in 12 European countries for the transmission of monetary policy. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 19952006 to generate impulse responses of key macroeconomic variables to a monetary policy...

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How to be well shod to absorb shocks? : shock synchronization and joining the euro zone

Gilson, Natacha (contributor) - 2006

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Inter-temporal savings, current account dynamics and asymmetric shocks in a heterogeneous European Monetary Union

Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2010

In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...

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The price puzzle revisited : can the cost channel explain a rise in inflation after a monetary policy shock?

Henzel, Steffen; Hülsewig, Oliver; Mayer, Eric; … - 2007

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The positive border effect of EU integration

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011

, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …

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