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Labor Market Dynamics When Ideas are Harder to Find
Bilal, Adrien; Engbom, Niklas; Mongey, Simon; Violante, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper evaluates the impact of slowing economic growth on labor market dynamism and misallocation. It provides a model of endogenous growth via imitation in a frictional labor market. The framework accounts for rich data on worker job-to-job transitions as well as stochastic and lifecycle...
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Quantitative Effects of Fiscal Foresight
Leeper, Eric M. - 2010
Changes in fiscal policy typically entail two kinds of lags: the legislative lag--between when legislation is proposed and when it is signed into law--and the implementation lag--from when a new fiscal law is enacted and when it takes effect. These lags imply that substantial time evolves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462293
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Anchoring Fiscal Expectations
Leeper, Eric M. - 2009
In this lecture, I argue that there are remarkable parallels between how monetary and fiscal policies operate on the macro economy and that these parallels are sufficient to lead us to think about transforming fiscal policy and fiscal institutions as many countries have transformed monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463382
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What about Japan?
Chien, YiLi; Cole, Harold L.; Lustig, Hanno - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Japan's low-rate policies on its government and households. Because of the duration mismatch on the government balance sheet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436981
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Surprising Comparative Properties of Monetary Models : Results from a New Data Base
Taylor, John B. - 2009
In this paper we investigate the comparative properties of empirically-estimated monetary models of the U.S. economy. We make use of a new data base of models designed for such investigations. We focus on three representative models: the Christiano, Eichenbaum, Evans (2005) model, the Smets and...
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Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID : Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?'
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the effects of fiscal policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the firm, sector, country and global level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business failures. We combine firm-level financial data from 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629513
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U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock
Asquith, Brian J. - 2017
International trade exposure affects job creation and destruction along the intensive margin (job flows due to expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the...
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Macroeconomic Effects of Debt Relief : Consumer Bankruptcy Protections in the Great Recession
Auclert, Adrien - 2019
This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment levels during the Great Recession. We document that over this period, states with more generous bankruptcy exemptions had significantly smaller declines in non-tradable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479637
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Corporate Bond Liquidity During the COVID-19 Crisis
Kargar, Mahyar - 2020
We study liquidity conditions in the corporate bond market during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of the … unprecedented interventions by the Federal Reserve. We find that, at the height of the crisis, liquidity conditions deteriorated … "lean against the wind" and bid-ask spreads declined. To study the causal impact of the interventions on market liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481550
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Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09
Reis, Ricardo - 2010
compares the Federal Reserve's actions with the literature on optimal policy in a liquidity trap. The theory suggests that, to … securities markets can restore liquidity with fewer government funds than extending credit to the originators of loans …
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