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This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
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of new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We focus on monetary, microprudential and macroprudential policies designed …
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This paper provides novel information on the propagation of the pandemic-induced real shock to firms' financial … higher indebtedness and, hence, less capacity to deal with a liquidity shock. Conditional on these factors, firm size does …
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This paper studies the macroeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and makes a first step in adapting the central bank modelling apparatus to the new economic landscape. We augment the ECB-BASE model with the predictive dynamics of the SIR model in order to assess the interplay between...
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This paper analyses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic shock on small open economies in a monetary union with an … focus on the size and the direction of international spillovers - both from the shock itself and from the ensuing fiscal …
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When the Covid-19 crisis struck, banks using internal-rating based (IRB) models quickly recognized the increase in risk and reduced lending more than banks using a standardized approach. This effect is not driven by borrowers’ quality or by banks in countries with credit booms before the...
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This paper develops a novel indicator of global economic activity, the GEA Tracker, which is based on commodity prices selected recursively through a genetic algorithm. The GEA Tracker allows for daily real-time knowledge of international business conditions using a minimum amount of...
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Recent research has argued that the COVID-19 shock has also brought about a reallocation shock. We examine the evidence …-section, or when broken down by firms’ size. We then examine whether mismatch unemployment has risen as a result of the pandemic … driving the elevated unemployment rate. Finally, we employ a novel Bayesian SVAR framework with sign restrictions to identify …
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In response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, there has been a complementary approach to monetary and fiscal …
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We explore the interaction between labour market reforms and financial frictions. Our study combines a new cross-country reform database on labour market reforms with matched firmbank data for nine euro area countries over the period 1999 to 2013. While we find that labour market reforms are...
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