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Heterogeneous households in a sticky-price model
Lee, Jae Won - 2009
This paper introduces heterogeneous households into an otherwise standard sticky-price model with industry-specific labor markets. Households differ in labor incomes and asset markets are incomplete. I show that household heterogeneity affects equilibrium dynamics nontrivially by amplifying...
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Can intangible capital explain cyclical movements in the labor wedge?
Gourio, François; Rudanko, Leena - 2014
Intangible capital is an important factor of production in modern economies that is generally neglected in business cycle analyses. We demonstrate that intangible capital can have a substantial impact on business cycle dynamics, especially if the intangible is complementary with production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352192
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Asset price fluctuations in Japan: 1980 - 2000
Nakajima, Tomoyuki - 2003
model with adaptive expectations about future productivity growth can reproduce the aggregate land price. However, even with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318972
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Does excessive sovereign debt really hurt growth? A critique of This time is different, by Reinhart and Rogoff
Nersisyan, Yeva; Wray, L. Randall - 2010
The worst global downturn since the Great Depression has caused ballooning budget deficits in most nations, as tax revenues collapse and governments bail out financial institutions and attempt countercyclical fiscal policy. With notable exceptions, most economists accept the desirability of...
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Growth and welfare effects of business cycles in economies with idiosyncratic human capital risk
Krebs, Tom - 2002
This paper uses a tractable macroeconomic model with idiosyncratic human capital risk and incomplete markets to analyze the growth and welfare effects of business cycles. The analysis is based on the assumption that the elimination of business cycles eliminates the variation in idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318917
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Productivity, energy prices, and the great moderation: A new link
Dhawan, Rajeev; Jeske, Karsten; Silos, Pedro - 2008
We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …
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Synergizing ventures
Akcigit, Ufuk; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2019
Venture capital (VC) and growth are examined both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, VC-backed startups have higher early growth rates and initial patent quality than non-VC-backed ones. VC backing increases a startup's likelihood of reaching the right tails of the firm size and...
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Climate risk and commodity currencies
Kapfhammer, Felix; Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, … - 2020
The positive relationship between real exchange rates and natural resource income is well understood and studied. However, climate change and the transition to a lower-carbon economy now challenges this relationship. We document this by proposing a novel news media-based measure of climate...
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News-Driven Inflation Expectations and Information Rigidities
Larsen, Vegard Høghaug; Thorsrud, Leif Anders; … - 2019
We investigate the role played by the media in the expectations formation process of households. Using a novel news-topic-based approach we show that news types the media choose to report on, e.g., fiscal policy, health, and politics, are good predictors of households' stated inflation...
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A moment-matching method for approximating vector autoregressive processes by finite-state Markov chains
Gospodinov, Nikolay; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - 2013
This paper proposes a moment-matching method for approximating vector autoregressions by finite-state Markov chains. The Markov chain is constructed by targeting the conditional moments of the underlying continuous process. The proposed method is more robust to the number of discrete values and...
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