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Level, slope, curvature of the sovereign yield curve, and fiscal behaviour
Afonso, António; Martins, Manuel M.F. - 2010
We study fiscal behaviour and the sovereign yield curve in the U.S. and Germany in the period 1981:I-2009:IV. The latent factors, level, slope and curvature, obtained with the Kalman filter, are used in a VAR with macro and fiscal variables, controlling for financial stress conditions. In the...
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Fiscal developments and financial stress: a threshold VAR analysis
Afonso, António; Baxa, Jaromír; Slavík, Michal - 2011
economic growth to a fiscal shock are mostly positive in both financial stress regimes; (iii) financial stress has a negative … effect on output growth and worsens the fiscal position; (iv) the nonlinearity in the response of output growth to a fiscal …
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