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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
question in the context of a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857672
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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration
Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009
Using a unique German firm-level data set, this paper is the first to jointly study the cyclical properties of the cross-sections of firm-level real value added and Solow residual innovations, as well as capital and employment adjustment. We find two new business cycle facts: 1) The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857682
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Transmission of nominal exchange rate changes to export prices and trade flows and implications for exchange rate policy
Hoffmann, Mathias; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2009
We discuss how the welfare ranking of fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes in a New Open Economy Macroeconomics model depends on the interplay between the degree of exchange rate pass-through and the elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods. We identify combinations of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003870831
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Deciding to peg the exchange rate in developing countries : the role of private-sector debt
Harms, Philipp; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2009
We argue that a higher share of the private sector in a country's external debt raises the incentive to stabilize the exchange rate. We present a simple model in which exchange rate volatility does not affect agents' welfare if all the debt is incurred by the government. Once we introduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003915192
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On the nonlinear influence of Reserve Bank of Australia interventions on exchange rates
Reitz, Stefan; Ruelke, Jan-Christoph; Taylor, Mark P. - 2010
This paper applies nonlinear econometric models to empirically investigate the effectiveness of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) exchange rate policy. First, results from a STARTZ model are provided revealing nonlinear mean reversion of the Australian dollar exchange rate in the sense that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003964417
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Real currency appreciation in accession countries : Balassa-Samuelson and investment demand
Fischer, Christoph - 2002
country's real exchange rate to various shocks is derived in a simple model. It is shown that productivity shocks work not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431705
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The global dimension of inflation : evidence from factor-augmented Phillips curves
Eickmeier, Sandra (contributor); Moll, Katharina (contributor) - 2008
We examine the global dimension of inflation in 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007in a traditional Phillips curve … affect inflation through (the common part of) domestic demand and supplyconditions. Our most important result is that the … common component of changes in unit laborcosts notably affects inflation. We also find evidence that movements in import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794365
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Fiscal foundation of convergence to European Union in Pre-Accession Transition Countries
Halpern, László; Neményi, Judit - 2002
Pre-Accession Transition Countries (PATCs) aim at early admittance to the monetary club. Their fiscal indicators - deficit and debt - do not show any serious symptoms. Closer scrutiny reveals, however, that the interest burden of their public debt might be underestimated, and that restructuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431300
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The debt brake : business cycle and welfare consequences of Germany's new fiscal policy rule
Mayer, Eric; Stähler, Nikolai - 2009
In a New Keynesian DSGE model with non-Ricardian consumers, we show that automatic stabilization according to a countercyclical spending rule following the idea of the debt brake is well suited both to steer the economy and in terms of welfare. In particular, the adjustment account set up to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873005
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The impact of fiscal policy on economic activity over the business cycle : evidence from a threshold VAR analysis
Baum, Anja; Koester, Gerrit B. - 2011
Does the state of the business cycle matter for the effects of fiscal policy shocks on GDP? This study analyses quarterly German data from 1976 to 2009 in a threshold SVAR, expanding the SVAR approach by Blanchard and Perotti (2002). In a linear benchmark SVAR, the analysis finds that hiking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936115