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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
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Money, Stock Prices and Central Banks : A Cointegrated VAR Analysis
Wiedmann, Marcel - 2011
whether liquidity conditions play an important role in stock market developments. As an innovation, liquidity conditions enter … flows, which represent the share of global liquidity that arrives in the respective country. A second aim is to understand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015328
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The macroeconomic policy challenges of balance sheet recession : lessons from Japan for the European crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the … characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …
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The liquidity channel of fiscal policy
Bayer, Christian; Born, Benjamin; Luetticke, Ralph - 2020
—the liquidity premium. We rationalize this finding in an estimated heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete … markets and portfolio choice, in which public debt affects private liquidity. In this environment, the short-run fiscal … multiplier is amplified by the countercyclical liquidity premium. This liquidity channel stabilizes investment and crowds in …
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Labor market institutions, fiscal multipliers, and macroeconomic volatility
Boeck, Maximilian; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Glocker, … - 2022
We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both...
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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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What do we know about the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy? : a brief survey of the literature on fiscal multipliers
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Lim, Guay C. - 2018
This article reviews recent research findings on the effects of fiscal multipliers in normal times, during booms/busts, and in the presence of the zero lower bound. Studies on the effects of fiscal policy in open economy settings as well as contributions on the fiscal-monetary policy mix are...
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Policy risk and the business cycle
Born, Benjamin; Pfeifer, Johannes - 2013 - This version: July 11, 2013, First Version: December 2010
The argument that policy risk, i.e., uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New...
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Monetary and fiscal policy interactions over the cycle : some empirical evidence
Muscatelli, V. Anton; Tirelli, Patrizio; Trecroci, Carmine - 2002
This paper estimates VAR models to examine the response of monetary and fiscal policy to macroeconomic targets, and the interdependence between the two policy instruments. The models are estimated for a number of G7 countries. Our findings show that, whilst monetary and fiscal policy are...
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Monetary and fiscal management, finance, and growth
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2004
This lecture addresses three related aspects of monetary and fiscal management in Europe and elsewhere. First, I discuss the implications of economic integration for monetary and fiscal policy, especially the narrow focus on low inflation as the main objective of monetary policy. I argue that...
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