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Çelik, Sinem Kılıç; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2023

Potential growth - the rate of expansion an economy can sustain at full capacity and employment - is a critical driver of development progress. It is also a major input in the formulation of fiscal and monetary policies over the business cycle. This paper introduces the most comprehensive...

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Potential growth prospects: Risks, rewards, and policies

Çelik, Sinem Kılıç; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2023

Potential output growth around the world slowed over the past two decades. This slowdown is expected to continue in the remainder of the 2020s: global potential growth is projected to average 2.2 percent per year in 2022-30, 0.4 percentage point below its 2011-21 average. Emerging market and...

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Slowing growth: More than a rough patch

Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2023

Across the world, a structural growth slowdown is underway: at current trends, the global potential growth rate - the maximum rate at which an economy can grow without igniting inflation - is expected to fall to a three-decade low over the remainder of the 2020s. The slowdown could be even more...

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Unemployment in the European Union: institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain reaction theory of unemployment, which focuses on (a) the interaction among labor markets adjustment processes, (b) the interplay between these adjustment processes and the...

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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...

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Economic Uncertainty and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy

Aastveit, Knut Are; Natvik, Gisle James; Sola, Sergio - 2013

This paper explores if economic uncertainty alters the macroeconomic influence of monetary policy. We consider several measures of U.S. economic uncertainty, and estimate their interaction effects with monetary policy shocks as identified through structural vector autoregressions. We find that...

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News media vs. FRED-MD for macroeconomic forecasting

Ellingsen, Jon; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif … - 2020

Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform an in depth real …, namely the FRED-MD dataset. Focusing on U.S. GDP, consumption and investment growth, our results suggest that the news data … contains information not captured by the hard economic indicators, and that the news-based data are particularly informative …

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Discount shock, price-rent dynamics, and the business cycle

Miao, Jianjun; Wang, Pengfei; Zha, Tao - 2020

The price-rent ratio in commercial real estate is highly volatile, and its variation comoves with the business cycle. To account for these two facts, we develop a dynamic general equilibrium model that explicitly introduces a rental market and incorporates the liquidity constraint on an...

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Business cycle implications of internal consumption habit for New Keynesian models

Kano, Takashi; Nason, James Michael - 2009

This paper studies the implications of internal consumption habit for propagation and monetary transmission in New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (NKDSGE) models. We use Bayesian methods to evaluate the role of internal consumption habit in NKDSGE model propagation and monetary...

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Habits, sentiment and predictable income in the dynamics of aggregate consumption

Sommer, Martin - 2001

growth to predicted income can be to a large extent reinterpreted as a sluggish response of consumption to news Moreover the …

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