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Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Leonardi, Marco; Pica, Giovanni - 2021

In a perfect labor market severance payments can have no real effects as they can be undone by a properly designed labor contract (Lazear 1990). We give empirical content to this proposition by estimating the effects of EPL on entry wages and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental...

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Fiscal Equalization and the Tax Structure

Holm-Hadulla, Federic - 2021

between jurisdictions lowers the perceived excess burden of distortionary taxation and thereby raises its attractiveness from … taxation serves as a Pigouvian intervention to correct externalities. The empirical analysis supports redistribution between … jurisdictions as important, but insufficient, to fully explain the observed reliance on distortionary taxation. Among the remaining …

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The Export-Magnification Effect of Offshoring

Kleinert, Joern - 2012

In this paper we provide a new explanation for the increase in world trade over the last two decades. We show analytically in a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous firms that a fall in variable offshoring costs boosts trade in differentiated final goods through an intra-industry...

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Business Groups as Hierarchies of Firms : Determinants of Vertical Integration and Performance

Altomonte, Carlo - 2013

We explore the nature of Business Groups, that is network-like forms of hierarchical organization between legally autonomous firms spanning both within and across national borders. Exploiting a unique dataset of 270,474 headquarters controlling more than 1,500,000 (domestic and foreign)...

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Central Clearing and Collateral Demand

Duffie, Darrell - 2014

We use an extensive data set of bilateral exposures on credit default swap (CDS) to estimate the impact on collateral demand of new margin and clearing practices and regulations. We decompose collateral demand for both customers and dealers into several key components, including the “velocity...

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The Impact of Global Warming on Inflation : Averages, Seasonality and Extremes

Kotz, Maximilian; Kuik, Friderike; Lis, Eliza; Nickel, … - 2023

Understanding of the macroeconomic effects of climate change is developing rapidly, but the implications for past and future inflation remain less well understood. Here we exploit a global dataset of monthly consumer price indices to identify the causal impacts of changes in climate on...

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Macroeconomic Implications of Downward Wage Rigidities

Abbritti, Mirko - 2011

Growth of wages, unemployment, employment and vacancies exhibit strong asymmetries between expansionary and contractionary phases. In this paper we analyze to what degree downward wage rigidities in the bargaining process affect other variables of the economy. We introduce asymmetric wage...

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Level, Slope, Curvature of the Sovereign Yield Curve, and Fiscal Behaviour

Afonso, António - 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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How Large are Housing and Financial Wealth Effects? A New Approach

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2015

This paper presents a simple new method for measuring 'wealth effects' on aggregate consumption. The method exploits the stickiness of consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption 'habits') to distinguish between immediate and eventual wealth effects. In U.S. data, we...

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Price Dividend Ratio and Long-Run Stock Returns : A Score Driven State Space Model

Delle Monache, Davide - 2020

In this paper we develop a general framework to analyze state space models with time-varying system matrices where time variation is driven by the score of the conditional likelihood. We derive a new filter that allows for the simultaneous estimation of the state vector and of the time-varying...

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