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economically relevant magnitude of about 60 percent. We also find evidence of aversion against political and macroeconomic risk as …
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This paper quantifies the economic impact of uncertainty shocks in the UK using data that span the recent Great Recession. We find that uncertainty shocks have a significant impact on economic activity in the UK, depressing industrial production and GDP. The peak impact is felt fairly quickly at...
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and real shocks, and the credibility component depends on the mean and risk of real asset returns. Thus, observed booms …
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The paper uses MULTIMOD to examine the implications of uncertain exchange rate pass-through for the conduct of monetary policy. From the policymaker''s perspective, uncertainty about exchange rate pass-through implies uncertainty about policy multipliers and the impact of state variables on...
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This paper presents a modeling framework that delivers joint forecasts of indicators of systemic real risk and systemic … financial risk, as well as stress-tests of these indicators as impulse responses to structural shocks identified by standard … of out-of sample forecasting power for tail risk realizations of real activity for several countries, suggesting the …
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The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...
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Global investment patterns mean that effective taxation of foreign investors is of increasing importance to the economies of lower income countries. It is thus of considerable concern that the historical framework for cross-border income tax arrangements is not always well suited to allow...
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This study examines the socio-economic impact of special economic zones (SEZs) in Cambodia---a prominent place-based policy established in 2005. The paper employs a database on existing and future SEZs in Cambodia with matched household surveys at the district level and documents stylized facts...
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