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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?
Saka, Orkun - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...
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Interest Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in Domestic Investment : Evidence for the Euro Area
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019
The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank's effectiveness in a low interest rate environment...
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
Abbritti, Mirko - 2012
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...
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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession : Evidence from Micro Data
Verdugo, Gregory - 2015
We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great …
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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market : First Results from the Euro Experiment
Merkl, Christian - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …
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How Does the Economic Uncertainty Affect Asset Prices Under Normal and Financial Distress Times?
Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2022
By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....
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Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data
Coibion, Olivier - 2014
-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to "keep up" with higherincome … the underlying type of the applicant, so that banks ultimately channel more credit toward lower-income applicants in low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059685
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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle … financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …
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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union
Baas, Timo - 2018
For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows that internal current account imbalances inside a currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930946
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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times
Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020
reverse QE (RQE) periods while the EU EPU makes Asian markets vulnerable during the Eurozone debt crisis. The large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833241