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. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then … concentration is associated with a positive and significant relationship between bank-level credit growth and aggregate growth of …
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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econometric issues are addressed including estimation of the number of dynamic factors and tests for the factor restrictions …
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We present a framework for computing and evaluating linear projections of macro variables conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy. A modest policy intervention is a change in policy that does not significantly shift agents' beliefs about policy regime and does not generate...
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Most empirical analyses of monetary policy have been confined to frameworks in which the Federal Reserve is implicitly assumed to exploit only a limited amount of information, despite the fact that the Fed actively monitors literally thousands of economic time series. This article explores the...
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regimes. We pay particular attention to the BBC and offer a new approach to parameter estimation by utilizing a three …
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This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger...
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. The estimation of key parameters uses a simulated method of moments approach to match moments related to asset market … estimation are used to characterize the distributions of the marginal propensity to consume across households for each of the … policy-induced variations in stock returns. Finally, monetary contractions have a larger impact on consumption in Germany and …
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of a within-bank negative relation between valuation and size for large banks from 1987 to 2006 but not when the post …-Dodd-Frank period is included in the sample. The negative relation between bank value and bank size for large banks cannot be … Tobin's q lower by 0.2% in regressions with year and bank fixed effects. This relation between bank value and trading assets …
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