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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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per capita) mediated by product vulnerabilities. We account for the precise lag between when the COVID-19 shock hit the … a lower degree of complexity negatively affected exports as a result of this shock. …
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Shocks to capital utilization are introduced in a structural macroeconomic closed-economy model with financial frictions to capture disruptions on the ability of the capital stock to provide capital services used in production. Estimates for the Euro Area and the United States show that these...
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We analyse the link between supply chains and the extent to which the Great Recession has affected national economies … find that the trough in Europe occurs about 0.17 years later and the recovery (for the countries that have recovered) about … 1.55 years later. Moreover, the duration of the decline in Europe is about 4 months longer and of the recovery about 17 …
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factors from trade-related spillovers, and identify the Covid-19 shock using GDP growth forecast revisions of the IMF in 2020Q … observations. Our results show that the Covid-19 pandemic will lead to a significant fall in world output that is most likely long …
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The highly dynamic nature of the COVID-19 crisis poses an unprecedented challenge to policy makers around the world to … the COVID-19 shock translates into a noticeable reduction in gross labor income across the entire income distribution …
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The current paper broadens the understanding of the role played by uncertainty in the context of macroeconomic fluctuations. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks for indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area...
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Recession, the primary determinant of the U.S. economic contraction in early 2020 was a sharp drop in domestic demand. Although …
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outbreak. We predict the cumulative loss in world output one year after the uncertainty shock due to Covid-19 to be about 14%. …We estimate a three-variate VAR using proxies of global financial uncertainty, the global financial cycle, and world …
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measure to 35 percent with a strong containment measure; second, recovery from recession emerges when the lockdown policy is …
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