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A widely held view is that openness to international trade leads to higher GDP volatility, as trade increases … important, openness to international trade can lower GDP volatility by reducing exposure to domestic shocks and allowing … importance of the two mechanisms (sectoral specialization and cross-country diversification) and provide a new answer to the …
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forward-looking stock returns before affecting economic growth. Consistent with most such shocks from 1947 to 2020 enhancing … productivity, increased idiosyncratic stock return variation forecasts next-quarter real GDP growth, industrial production growth …, and consumption growth both in-sample and out-of-sample. These effects persist after controlling for other leading …
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countercyclical stocks. We use almost a three-quarter century of real GDP growth expectations from economists' surveys to determine … loading on the expected real GDP growth rate is a priced risk measure. A fully tradable, ex-ante portfolio formed on this …
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The amount of information produced about firms' productivities and about the quality of collateral backing their loans varies over time. These information dynamics determine the evolution of credit, output and productivity, which feeds back into incentives to produce information. We characterize...
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finance, which emphasize the extreme volatility and boom-bust dynamics of key time series, such as stock prices, credit, and …
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with higher volatility have lower growth. The addition of standard control variables strengthens the negative relationship …. We also find that government spending-induced volatility is negatively associated with growth even after controlling for …This paper presents empirical evidence against the standard dichotomy in macroeconomics that separates growth from the …
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Consider an economy in which agents face income risk but interact in a stochastic financial network where the randomness is dictated by both chance and choice. We study the financial centrality of an agent defined as the ex-ante marginal social value of providing a small liquid asset to that...
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declines of inflation later in 2022, in some countries. In times of high volatility of price determinants--cost and … shows that the cross-industry volatility of price determinants grew substantially in the inflation episode accompanying the … pandemic. Volatility remained elevated even in late 2022. The logic of the New Keynesian model of the Phillips curve links …
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We propose a new tool to filter non-linear dynamic models that does not require the researcher to specify the model fully and can be implemented without solving the model. If two conditions are satisfied, we can use a flexible statistical model and a known measurement equation to back out the...
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with relatively low levels of financial development, exchange rate volatility generally reduces growth, whereas for … rate volatility, and outliers. We also offer a simple monetary growth model in which real exchange rate uncertainty …This paper offers empirical evidence that real exchange rate volatility can have a significant impact on long-term rate …
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