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America First? : a US-centric view of global capital flows

McQuade, Peter; Schmitz, Martin - 2019

with those of the rest of the world. We analyse the relative importance of US, country-specific, and global variables as …. Global and national risk indicators perform better in explaining "rest of the world" flows. Moreover, we find that the … correlation between US and rest of the world flows peaks in periods of elevated uncertainty. We interpret our findings as evidence …

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Distance(s) and the volatility of international trade(s)

Mehl, Arnaud; Schmitz, Martin; Tille, Cédric - 2019

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in addition to its well-established relevance for the level of trade. A simple model of trade with endogenous markups shows that demand shocks have a larger impact on trade between...

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International capital flows at the security level : evidence from the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme

Bergant, Katharina; Fidora, Michael; Schmitz, Martin - 2020

We analyse euro area investors' portfolio rebalancing during the ECB's Asset Purchase Pro- gramme at the security level. Based on net transactions of domestic and foreign securities, we observe euro area sectors' capital ows into individual securities, cleaned from valuation effects. Our...

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Systemic risk diagnostics : coincident indicators and early warning signals

Schwaab, Bernd; Koopman, Siem Jan; Lucas, André - 2011

components for a large data set comprising the U.S., the EU-27 area, and the respective rest of the world. Credit risk conditions …

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Exchange rates and their effects on international trade

Klaassen, Franc - 2000

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Inflation dynamics with labour market matching : assessing alternative specifications

Christoffel, Kai; Costain, James; De Walque, Gregory - 2009

This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assesses their implications for in.ation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...

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The role of labor markets for euro area monetary policy

Christoffel, Kai; Küster, Keith; Linzert, Tobias - 2009

In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Keynesian model in which labor markets are characterized by search and matching frictions. We first investigate to which extent a more flexible labor market would alter the business cycle behaviour...

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Macroeconomic implications of downward wage rigidities

Abbritti, Mirko; Fahr, Stephan - 2011

Growth of wages, unemployment, employment and vacancies exhibit strong asymmetries between expansionary and contractionary phases. In this paper we analyze to what degree downward wage rigidities in the bargaining process affect other variables of the economy. We introduce asymmetric wage...

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The exchange rate insulation puzzle

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Küster, Keith; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2021

We confront the notion that flexible rates insulate a country from external disturbances with new evidence on spillovers from euro-area shocks to neighboring countries. We find that in response to euro-area shocks, spillovers are not smaller, and currency movements not significantly larger, in...

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Asymmetric monetary policy rules for the euro area and the US

Maih, Junior; Mazelis, Falk; Motto, Roberto; … - 2021

We analyse the implications of asymmetric monetary policy rules by estimating Markovswitching DSGE models for the euro area (EA) and the US. The estimations show that until mid-2014 the ECB's response to in ation was more forceful when in ation was above 2% than below 2%. Since then, the ECB's...

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