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Fiscal adjustments and business cycle synchronization

Agnello, Luca; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sousa, Ricardo M. - 2013

Using a panel of annual data for 20 countries we show that synchronized fiscal consolidation (stimulus) programmes in different countries make their business cycles more closely linked, especially in the case of fiscal adjustments lasting 2 or 3 years. We also find: (i) little evidence of...

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Different no more : country spreads in advanced and emerging economies

Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Pfeifer, Johannes; … - 2020

Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...

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Cross-country unemployment insurance, transfers, and trade-offs in international risk sharing

Enders, Zeno; Vespermann, David - 2021

We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as allocative efficiency and apply our results to the implicit transfers generated by a potential European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS). Specifically, we first develop a simple model...

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The G7 business cycle in a globalized world

Carstensen, Kai; Salzmann, Leonard - 2016

, and inflation volatility, and in global macroeconomic indicators like the oil price, world stock market returns, and … exchange rate volatility. The results indicate that in a globalized world spillovers from emerging markets and industrial … countries other than the G7 play a relevant role for major aspects of the G7 and world business cycle. …

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Cross-country data on skills and the quality of schooling : a selective survey

Fuente, Ángel de la; Doménech, Rafael - 2021

Scores in standardized international student achievement tests and some recent adult literacy studies provide interesting data on the quality of educational outputs and on the skill level of the population that can be a useful complement to the data on the quantity of schooling which have been...

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Animal spirits and the international transmission of business cycles : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money & International Finance, February 2016

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2016

It is well-known that the high synchronization of the business cycles among industrial countries cannot easily be replicated in standard open economy macroeconomic models without assuming that the exogenous shocks hitting these countries are highly correlated. We develop a two-country behavioral...

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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009

We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business cycles in emerging Asian economies generally displays a low degree of synchronization with the OECD countries, which is consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast,...

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Labour market rigidities, financial integration and international risk sharing in the OECD

Fidrmuc, Jarko (contributor); … - 2007

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Synchronization and changes in international inflation uncertainty

Henzel, Steffen; Wieland, Elisabeth - 2013

We investigate the international linkages of inflation uncertainty in the G7. In a first step, we document that inflation uncertainty in the G7 is intertwined. Moreover, the degree of synchronization has increased during the recent two decades. Second, based on a Factor-Structural Vector...

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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-state capital income flows. While insurance against transitory...

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