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Statistics Netherlands uses a state space model to estimate the Dutch unemployment by using monthly series about the … more realistic real-time unemployment estimates. …
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We investigate the importance of aggregate and consumer-specific or idiosyncratic labour income risk for aggregate consumption changes in the US over the period 1952-2001. Theoretically, the effect of labour income risk on consumption changes is decomposed into an aggregate and into an...
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This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...
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an initial shock and on history, minus the baseline expectation that conditions on history. This makes the process … endogenous, but the choice of the baseline shock within the data set makes a difference. We explore the impact of three different … government allowed the investment bank Lehman Brothers to go bankrupt (GFC2). The third shock is 9 May 2010, which marked the …
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). The third shock is 9 May 2010. Our modelling includes leverage and asymmetric effects undertaken in the context of a …
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To investigate how economies, financial markets or institutions can deal with stress, we nowadays often analyze the effects of shocks conditional on a recession or a bear market. MSVAR models are ideally suited for such analyses because they combine gradual movement with sudden switches. In this...
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six-variable system supports time variation in US monetary policy shock identification. In the sample-dominating first … stimulus, features the liquidity effect, and is complemented by a pure term spread shock. Absent the specific monetary policy …
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Recessions and expansions are often caused or reinforced by developments in private consumption - the largest component of aggregate demand - which, as a result, varies over the business cycle. As such, an accurate measurement of the cyclical component of consumption and an understanding of its...
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