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This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … employment prospects in response to trade shocks. Finally, we find that firms experiencing greater import competition start with … conditions and policies that help spread the gains from trade more evenly throughout the population. We exploit a large global …
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As central banks across the globe have responded to the COVID-19 shock by rounds of extensive monetary loosening, concerns about their inequality impact have grown. But rising inequality has multiple causes and its relationship with monetary policy is complex. This paper highlights the channels...
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We show that firms' market power dampens the response of their output to monetary policy shocks, using firm-level data for the United States and a large cross-country firm-level dataset for 14 advanced economies. The estimated impact of a firm's markup on its response to a monetary policy shock...
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In the last decade, over half of the EU countries in the euro area or with currencies pegged to the euro were hit by large risk premium shocks. Previous papers have focused on the impact of these shocks on demand. This paper, by contrast, focuses on the impact on supply. We show that risk...
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type. Constrained inefficient equilibria feature non-positive, id est, one less than or equal the economy's growth rate …
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To identify and quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply the house price-at-risk methodology to a sample of … risks to housing markets in the United States have seemingly fallen over the past decade, while having increased in Canada … risks. In addition, capital flows are found to be significantly associated with future downside risks to major housing …
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of bubbles forming there. However, China's unique housing market characteristics make it difficult to assess the …
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It is obvious that holding city population constant, differences in cities across the world are enormous. Urban giants in poor countries are not large using measures such as land area, interior space or value of output. These differences are easily reconciled mathematically as population is the...
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Housing market imbalances are a key source of systemic risk and can adversely affect housing affordability. This paper … utilizes a stylized model of the Canadian economy that includes policymakers with differing objectives-macroeconomic stability …, financial stability, and housing affordability. Not surprisingly, when faced with multiple objectives, deploying more policy …
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market economy. Housing reform and rising income inequality also contribute to higher savings. Moving forward, demographic …
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