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Oil price shocks, monetary policy and current account imbalances within a currency union

Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2017

trade result in an asymmetric reaction to an otherwise symmetric shock. In this context, we show that oil price shocks can …

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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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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...

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Can price controls be optimal? : the economics of the energy shock in Germany

Krebs, Tom; Weber, Isabella - 2024

argue that the German government handled the immediate response to the energy shock well, but subsequently waited too long … controls as an optimal policy response to an energy shock within a general equilibrium framework. We develop a simple … generate endogenous price uncertainty in the wake of an energy shock. We also link our analysis to the so-called sunspot …

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Can intra-regional trade act as a global shock absorber in Africa?

Brixiova, Zuzana; Meng, Qingwei; Ncube, Mthuli - 2015

The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to output and other shocks originated in the rest of the world. A comparison of two regional economic communities - the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs...

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Revisiting cross-country poverty convergence in the developing world with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouyang, Yusi; Shimeles, Abebe; Thorbecke, Erik - 2018

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...

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Oil exports and the Iranian economy

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009

This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika (contributor); Holmlund, Bertil (contributor) - 2007

preferred model, almost 30 percent of the maximum effect of a shock still remains after ten years. …

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Uniform and nonuniform staggering of wage contracts

Danziger, Leif - 2010

This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...

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Innocent bystanders? : monetary policy and inequality in the US

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Küng, Lorenz; … - 2012

We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....

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