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Bubble Thy Neighbor : Portfolio Effects and Externalities from Capital Controls
Forbes, Kristin J. - 2012
We use changes in Brazil's tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and …. We find that an increase in Brazil's tax on foreign investment in bonds causes investors to significantly decrease their … portfolio allocations to Brazil in both bonds and equities. Investors simultaneously increase allocations to other countries …
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Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves : The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar
Papaioannou, Elias; Portes, Richard; Siourounis, Gregorios - 2021
market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank's desire to hold a sizable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317364
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Eigenvalue filtering in VAR models with application to the Czech business cycle
Beneš, Jaromír; Vávra, David - 2005
We propose the method of eigenvalue filtering as a new tool to extract time series subcomponents (such as business-cycle or irregular) defined by properties of the underlying eigenvalues. We logically extend the Beveridge-Nelson decomposition of the VAR time-series models focusing on the...
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Job flow dynamics and firing restrictions: evidence from Europe
Messina, Julián; Vallanti, Giovanna - 2006
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more stringent firing laws dampen the response of job destruction to the cycle, thus making job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604648
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On-the-job search and the cyclical dynamics of the labor market
Krause, Michael U.; Lubik, Thomas A. - 2007
We show how on-the-job search and the propagation of shocks to the economy are intricately linked. Rising search by employed workers in a boom amplifies the incentives of firms to post vacancies. In turn, more vacancies increases job search. By keeping job creation costs low for firms,...
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Resuscitating the wage channel in models with unemployment fluctuations
Christoffel, Kai; Kuester, Keith - 2008
All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to shocks. This view of the wage channel is deeply entrenched in central banks’ views and models of their economies. In this paper, we present a model with equilibrium...
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Real wages over the business cycle: OECD evidence from the time and frequency domains
Messina, Julián; Strozzi, Chiara; Turunen, Jarkko - 2009
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-country heterogeneity even after controlling for...
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The euro area Bank Lending Survey matters: empirical evidence for credit and output growth
de Bondt, Gabe; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis; … - 2010
This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and output growth. The responses of the lending survey, especially those related to loans to enterprises, are a significant leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP...
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Labor market institutions and the business cycle Unemployment rigidities vs. real wage rigidities
Abbritti, Mirko; Weber, Sebastian - 2010
This paper investigates the importance of labor market institutions for inflation and unemployment dynamics. Using the New Keynesian framework we argue that labor market institutions should be divided into those institutions that cause Unemployment Rigidities (UR) and those that cause Real Wage...
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Unobserved Components Model(s) : Output Gaps and Financial Cycles
Guillochon, Justine; Le Roux, Julien - 2023
The Global Financial Crisis established that policymakers should consider the stage of the financial cycle to better evaluate the cyclical position of the economy when designing monetary policy decisions. If financial variables are omitted from the estimations of the output gap, a common and...
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