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From late 2008 to 2017, oil and equity returns were more positively correlated than in other periods. In addition, we show that both oil and equity returns became more responsive to macroeconomic news. We provide empirical evidence and theoretical justification that these changes resulted from...
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the Bank of Canada, the The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the survey collected by … Canada dramatically improves its predictive accuracy, mainly because of the absence of timely production data for Canada …. Moreover, Statistics Canada produces a monthly real GDP measure along with the quarterly one, and we show how to modify the …
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We use non-Gaussian features in U.S. macroeconomic data to identify aggregate supply and demand shocks while imposing minimal economic assumptions. Recessions in the 1970s and 1980s were driven primarily by supply shocks, later recessions were driven primarily by demand shocks, and the Great...
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We examine the effect of federal and subnational fiscal policy on aggregate demand in the U.S. by introducing the fiscal effect (FE) measure. FE can be decomposed into three components. Discretionary FE quantifies the effect of discretionary or legislated policy changes on aggregate demand....
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