Showing 1 - 10 of 254
recent crisis. On the wider economic impact of STW, we show that firms using the schemes are significantly less likely to lay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959218
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011349878
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765961
fifteen key euro area trade partners and the euro area. Our measures display a clear counter-cyclical pattern and line up well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503567
We study the macroeconomic consequences of financial shocks and increase in economic risk using a quantile vector … risk, but have limited impact on upside potential. The impact of financial shocks is explained away after controlling for … economic risk (measured by the interquantile range). The effects are economically relevant. Bad economic environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295559
Economists, observers and policy-makers often emphasize the role of sentiment as a potential driver of the business cycle. In this paper we provide three contributions to this debate. First, we critically survey the existing literature on sentiment (considering both confidence and uncertainty)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011719915
The Great Recession has been characterised by the two stylized facts: the buildup of leverage in the household sector … in the period preceding the recession and a protracted economic recovery that followed. We attempt to explain these two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011656163
We build a dynamic factor model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility and use it to decompose the variance of a large set of financial and macroeconomic variables for 22 OECD countries spanning from 1960 onwards into contributions from country-specific uncertainty,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011856363
changes in global risk (VIX). We find that inertia (whether the bond behaved as a safe asset in the past) and good … relevant for the latter countries after the global financial crisis. Finally, the safe asset status does not appear to depend … on whether the change in global risk is driven by financial shocks rather than by US monetary policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138612
maturity races, information sensitivity, risk-intolerant debt and induced runs reinforce the liquidity risk externality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637030