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We examine the effects of various borrower-based macroprudential tools in a New Keynesian environment where both real and nominal interest rates are low. Our model features long-term debt, housing transaction costs and a zero-lower bound constraint on policy rates. We find that the long-term...
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statistically significant output effect under floating exchange rate regimes. For the estimation of the output effects of fiscal …
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employs the same or another worker, the vacancy rate increases and the unemployment rate declines. However, the scheme …
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Amid total factor productivity (TFP) shocks job-to-job flows amplify the volatility of unemployment, but the aggregate … income, and unemployment. As such, our work contributes to resolving two limitations of current general equilibrium labor …-search theory: under standard calibrations models without OTJ search generate implausibly low unemployment volatility, while models …
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where aggregate shocks have a permanent effect on the unemployment rate. If agents' wealth decreases, the unemployment rate … increases for a potentially indefinite period. This makes unemployment rate dynamics path dependent as in Blanchard and Summers … (1987). I argue that this feature explains the persistence of the unemployment rate in the U.S. after the Great Recession …
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Lithuania's current credit cycle highlights the strong link between housing prices and credit. We explore this relationship in more detail by analyzing the main features of credit, housing price, and output cycles in Baltic and Nordic countries during1995-2017. We find a high degree of...
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We examine the properties of house price fluctuations across 18 advanced economies over the past 40 years. We ask two specific questions: First, how synchronized are housing cycles across these countries? Second, what are the main shocks driving movements in global house prices? To address these...
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using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that …
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