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specific panel unit root test to investigate the meanreverting behaviour of general government expenditure and revenue ratios …. Secondly, we apply the bootstrap panel cointegration techniques that account for the time series and cross … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …
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We study state dependence in the impact of monetary policy shocks over the leverage cycle for a panel of 10 euro area … countries. We use a Bayesian Threshold Panel SVAR with regime classifications based on credit and house prices cycles. We find …
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advanced economies during the past 20 years. This is done by estimating fiscal reaction functions using dynamic panel …
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In this paper we evaluate the predictive power of the three most popular equilibrium exchange rate concepts: Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) and the Macroeconomic Balance (MB) approach. We show that there is a clear trade-off between storytelling and...
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curve in a Markov-switching panel setting with time-varying transition probabilities for the US, Portugal and Spain using … structural indicators which could affect the matching efficiency in the labour market. The results show that the sharp outward …
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Net trading income is an important but volatile source of income for many euro area banks, highly sensitive to changes in financial market conditions. Using a representative sample of European banks, we study the distribution of net trading income (normalized by total assets) conditional to...
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Financial asset prices contain a rich set of real-time information on the economy. To extract this information, it is crucial to understand the driving factors behind financial market developments. In this paper, we exploit daily cross-asset price movements in a sign-restricted BVAR model to...
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This paper studies the international spillovers of US monetary policy shocks on a number of macroeconomic and financial variables in 36 advanced and emerging economies. In most countries, a surprise US monetary tightening leads to depreciation against the dollar; industrial production and real...
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Financial globalisation and spillovers have gained immense prominence over the last two decades. Yet, powerful cross-border financial spillover channels have not become a standard element of structural monetary models. Against this background, we hypothesise that New Keynesian DSGE models that...
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The impact of currency collapses (i.e. large nominal depreciations or devaluations) on real output remains unsettled in … growth and output trend. Our main finding is that currency collapses are associated with a permanent output loss relative to … the drop in the value of the currency, which suggests that the costs of a currency crash largely stem from the factors …
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