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We investigate the effect of Reformed Protestantism, relative to Catholicism, on preferences for leisure and for redistribution and intervention in the economy. With a Fuzzy Spatial Regression Discontinuity Design, we exploit a historical quasiexperiment in Western Switzerland, where in the 16th...
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The reaction of hours worked to technology shocks represents a key controversy between RBC and New Keynesian explanations of the business cycle. It sparked a large empirical literature with contrasting results. We demonstrate that, with a more general and data coherent supply and production...
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The reaction of hours worked to technology shocks represents a key controversy between RBC and New Keynesian explanations of the business cycle. It sparked a large empirical literature with contrasting results. We demonstrate that, with a more general and data coherent supply and production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008771789
This paper studies the effects of imperfect risk-sharing between lenders and borrowers on commercial property prices and leverage. The key friction is that agents use different discount rates to evaluate future flows. Eliminating this pecuniary externality generates large reductions in the...
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We show that financial variables contribute to the forecast of GDP growth during the Great Recession, providing additional insights on both first and higher moments of the GDP growth distribution. If a recession is due to an unforeseen shock (such as the Covid-19 recession), financial variables...
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Due to input-output linkages, an industry level shock can widely transmit to the rest of the economy. We identify government policies on the automobile industry, which change final prices and estimate their effect on sales and production. An example could be the scrappage schemes that many...
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This paper studies the implications of perceived default risk for aggregate output and productivity. Using a model of … credit across firms with heterogeneous productivity. Further, we find that these losses accounted for over half of the … productivity fall between 2008 and 2009, and persisted for smaller (although not larger) firms. …
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productivity in advanced and emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). This paper uses a new method to extract technology … shocks that ex- cludes these in uences, resulting in lasting improvements in labor productivity. The same methodology in turn … is used to identify a stylized example of the effects of a demand shock on productivity. Technology innovations are …
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This paper analyses the endogeneity of euro area total factor productivity and its role in business cycle amplification … by estimating a medium-scale DSGE model with endogenous productivity mechanism on euro area data. In this framework …, total factor productivity evolves endogenously as a consequence of costly investment in R&D and adoption of new technologies …
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countries and manufacturing industries over the period 2006-2012. In summary, patterns of measured revenue productivity have …-stressed countries (Belgium, Finland, France and Germany). In particular, measured revenue productivity drops for both groups by about 6 … productivity was accompanied by a substantial dip in the proxy we use for TFP in quantity terms, as well as by a strong reduction …
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