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In this paper, we examine the role of global and domestic credit supply shocks in macroeconomic fluctuations for Emerging Markets. For this purpose, we impose a set of zero and sign restrictions within a medium-scale Bayesian Vector Auto-Regressive model. Quarterly data from South Africa and G-7...
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type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank …
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line with theory, induce a negative nowcast error but raise economic activity in the short run. They account for up to 30 …
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the pre-1980 period. Measuring expectations of future monetary policy rates conditional on a news shock suggests that the …
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-sized uncertainty shock generates a larger contraction in real activity when growth is low (as in recessions) than when growth is high …
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disruptions are found to double the negative output response to an uncertainty shock. We then employ our model to estimate the … overall economic cost of the COVID-19-induced uncertainty shock under different scenarios. Our results point to the … interventions that keep credit conditions as healthy as they were before the COVID-19 uncertainty shock are found to substantially …
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inventories react strongly and positively to news about future increases in total factor productivity. Theory suggests that the …
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exported primary commodities, imported capital goods and intermediate inputs, and a financial shock, modeled as fluctuations in …
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We construct a perfectly competitive general equilibrium model of two large and symmetric countries producing tradable commodities and a public consumption good. Destination or origin-based taxes are levied on the consumption of the tradable goods. In both countries, an institutional minimum...
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The European Union has recently proposed sectoral tax differentiation as a policy to fight unemployment. The member countries are allowed to reduce the VAT rates on goods and services that are particularly labor intensive and price elastic. The paper provides a theoretical analysis of the...
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