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Resolving puzzles of monetary policy transmission in emerging markets
Ha, Jongrim; Kim, Dohan; Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2024
Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and depreciation of the currency (the FX puzzle). We show that incorporating forward-looking...
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Fiscal policy, interest rate spreads, and the zero lower bound
Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko; Schabert, Andreas - 2015
This paper questions unconventional fiscal policy effects when the monetary policy rate is at the zero lower bound. We provide evidence for the US that the spread between the policy rate and the US-LIBOR, which is more relevant for private sector transactions, increases with government...
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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
households are worse off due to higher consumption volatility. A fixed exchange rate reduces the welfare of these households and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309046
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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
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Business cycle effects of credit and technology shocks in a DSGE model with firm defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - 2011
financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …
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Employment, exchange rates and labour market rigidity
Alexandre, Fernando; Bação, Pedro; Cerejeira, João; … - 2010
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of labour adjustment costs in a trade model affects the impact of exchange rate movements on...
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Asymmetric labor market institutions in the EMU and the volatility of inflation and unemployment differentials
Abbritti, Mirko; Müller, Andreas - 2012
volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
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Government deficit shocks and Okun's coefficient volatility : new insights on the austerity versus growth debate
Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
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Cross-country connectedness in inflation and unemployment: measurement and macroeconomic consequences
Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2021
setting – to explore the extent and consequences of total and directional volatility spillovers across variables and countries …. Besides, by exploring time-varying connectedness (resulting from country-specific shocks), we find that volatility spillovers …
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