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Causal effects of monetary shocks: semiparametric conditional independence tests with a multinomial propensity score
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2008
Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...
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Financial dependence, formal credit, and informal jobs: new evidence from Brazilian household data
Catão, Luis A. V.; Pagés, Carmen; Rosales, Maria Fernanda - 2009
This paper examines a much overlooked link between credit markets and formalization: since access to bank credit typically requires compliance with tax and employment legislation, firms are more likely to incur such formalization costs once bank credit is more widely available at lower cost; if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269636
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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics
Christoffel, Kai; Linzert, Tobias - 2005
cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267287
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Macroeconomic policy and unemployment by economic activity: evidence from Turkey
Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - 2008
that the positive income shock is followed by a decrease in unemployment in all economic activity groups during the initial … periods except the unemployment in the Electricity sector and the Community Services sector. A positive money shock decreases … positive interbank interest rate shock increases the unemployment in all economic activities at the initial levels but derives …
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Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2014
One suggested hypothesis for the dramatic rise in household borrowing that preceded the financial crisis is that low-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to keep up with higherincome households. Using household level data on debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333254
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How disasters affect local labor markets: the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R.; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
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Income volatility and health
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2007
We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on the estimation of dynamic panel data models. Contrary to much of the previous literature on health and socio-economic...
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Marriage, divorce and interstate risk sharing
Halla, Martin; Scharler, Johann - 2008
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to state-specific output shocks. Thus, marriages do not just improve the allocation of risk at the...
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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?
Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...
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Growing up in a recession: beliefs and the macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
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