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We propose to pool alternative systemic risk rankings for financial institutions using the method of principal components. The resulting overall ranking is less affected by estimation uncertainty and model risk. We apply our methodology to disentangle the common signal and the idiosyncratic...
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estimates of downward real and nominal wage rigidity for Hungary. Results suggest that nominal rigidity is more prominent in … Hungary than real rigidity. When compared to other countries participating in the IWFP, Hungary ranks among the countries with … the lowest degree of downward real rigidity. The estimated downward nominal rigidity for Hungary is higher, the measure is …
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In view of the increasing use of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models in the macroeconomic projections and the policy process, this paper examines, both conceptually and empirically, alternative notions of potential output within DSGE models. Furthermore, it provides historical...
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, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey from May 1998 to December 2007. To account for the importance of market expectations we use …
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an effect on the output volatility of firms. We use large representative firm-level databases from Estonia, Hungary …
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, based on a panel of four biggest Central European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) confirm …
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This paper presents new evidence on the flexibility of the Hungarian labor market, with special emphasis on wages. The results are based on a new survey on wage setting among Hungarian firms. The survey is part of the Eurosystem Wage Dynamics Network (WDN), and it is a harmonized questionnaire...
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responses to both permanent and transitory shocks in Hungary and compared my results to similar studies on Italian and …
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We quantitatively assess the macroeconomic effects of country-specific supply-side reforms in the euro area by simulating EAGLE, a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model. We consider reforms in the labor and services markets of Germany (or, alternatively, Portugal) and the rest of the...
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Rational expectations has been the dominant way to model expectations, but the literature has quickly moved to a more realistic assumption of boundedly rational learning where agents are assumed to use only a limited set of information to form their expectations. A standard assumption is that...
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