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Uncertainty Business Cycles - Really?
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2011
Are fluctuations in firms' profitability risk a major cause of regular business cycles? We study this question within the framework of a heterogeneous-firm dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with fixed capital adjustment costs. In such a model, surprise increases of risk lead to a...
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
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Inflation and Activity – Two Explorations and Their Monetary Policy Implications
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2015
We explore two issues triggered by the crisis. First, in most advanced countries, output remains far below the pre-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a breakdown of the relation between inflation and...
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Defining Opportunity Versus Necessity Entrepreneurship : Two Components of Business Creation
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2019
United States and Germany we find that 80-90 percent of entrepreneurs are opportunity entrepreneurs. Applying our proposed …
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Business Cycle Accounting
Chari, Varadarajan V.; Kehoe, Patrick J.; McGrattan, … - 2022
We propose a simple method to help researchers develop quantitative models of economic fluctuations. The method rests on the insight that many models are equivalent to a prototype growth model with time-varying wedges which resemble productivity, labor and investment taxes, and government...
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Business Cycles and the Exchange Rate System : Some International Evidence
Baxter, Marianne; Stockman, Alan C. - 2021
This paper investigates empirically the differences in time?series behavior of key economic aggregates under alternative exchange rate systems. We use a postwar sample of 49 countries to compare the behavior of output. consumption, trade flows, government consumption spending, and real exchange...
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The Effects of Extended Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle : Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Estimates Over Twenty Years
Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2012
differential effects of UI in booms and recessions, this paper exploits the fact that, in Germany, potential UI benefit duration is …
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Uncertainty and Economic Activity : Evidence from Business Survey Data
Bachmann, Ruediger - 2010
data from the U.S. and Germany in structural VARs, we find that positive innovations to business uncertainty lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141840
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions--and particularly trust in banks, business and government--has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in institutions. Cross-country comparisons reveal a clear legacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128268
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Spurring Job Creation in Response to Severe Recessions : Reconsidering Hiring Credits
Neumark, David - 2011
The continuing adverse labor market effects of the Great Recession have intensified interest in policy efforts to spur job creation. In periods when labor demand and supply are in balance, either hiring credits or worker subsidies can be used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing...
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