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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888063
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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898815
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Uncertainty shocks, banking frictions and economic activity
Bonciani, Dario; Roye, Björn van - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349878
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Central bank liquidity provision, risk-taking and economic efficiency
Bindseil, Ulrich; Jabłecki, Juliusz - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766427
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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 Keynesian model featuring policy risk as well as uncertainty about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772961
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Risk Management in action : robust monetary policy rules under structured uncertainty
Levine, Paul; McAdam, Peter; Pearlman, Joseph; Pierse, … - 2008
Recent interest in "Risk Management"has highlighted the relevance of Bayesian analysis for robust monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747990
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Uncertainty and fiscal policy in an asymmetric monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten (contributor); Zimmer, Blandine (contributor) - 2008
The paper examines the monetary-fiscal interactions in a monetary union model with uncertainty due to imperfect central bank transparency. We first show that monetary uncertainty disciplines fiscal policymakers and thereby reduces taxes, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749682
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Intra-and international risk-sharing in the short run and the long run
Becker, Sascha O.; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2003
We investigate empirically how industrialized countries and U.S. states share consumption risk at horizons between one … and thirty years. U.S. federal states share about 50 percent of their permanent idiosyncratic risk through cross … share any of their permanent idiosyncratic risk. Our results suggest that purely transaction cost based theories cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404294
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Optimal discretionary policy and uncertainty about inflation persistence
Moessner, Richhild (contributor) - 2005
This paper studies optimal discretionary policy with parameter uncertainty about inflation inertia. Optimal policy rules and impulse responses are presented within a hybrid New-Keynesian model estimated for the euro area by Smets (2003). We find that it may be optimal for policy to respond more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003208613
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Uncertainty, wage setting and decision making in a monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten (contributor) - 2005
The enlargement of the European Monetary Union is likely to lead to an increase in uncertainty regarding the transmission of monetary policy for the larger union. Adding new members to the central bank council will in addition imply that the policy reaction of the enlarged council will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003110104