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mercado. ; A recent literature documents a secular increase in the sales-weighted markups in the United States, a phenomenon … paper documents the behavior of markups in Spain before, during, and in the aftermath of the Great Recession. We document … that markups rose during the financial crisis. Unlike in the U.S., these dynamics were led by small firms: in response to a …
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Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2033
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intrasectoriales ; We broaden the conceptual framework of estimating markups at the sectoral level developed by Roeger (1995), and …, firms with higher productivity present higher markups. Further, we use this empirical setting to estimate changes in firm …-level markups over the course of the crisis (2008/2012). Our results indicate that for around 50% of sectors average markups …
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Disziplinierung von Marktmacht. Neben den allgemeinen Implementierungsm?ngeln bei der Anwendung dieser Modelle in der Praxis bergen …
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capital-market imperfections in which price-cost markups behave countercyclically, with a subsample of European firms …. Results show that firms subject to financial constraints had a significantly higher probability of raising markups than in a …
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This paper compares the behavior of real interest rate differentials across the major countries under the Bretton Woods regime and the regime of floating exchanges that replaced it. The primary object is to investigate both the extent of market integration and its changes over time. For all...
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This paper reappraises the financial repression hypothesis for India in the light of the partial liberalisation of the financial sector in the early 1990s, using for the first time, state-of-art multivariate cointegration and vector error correction models (VECM). From this robust test we find...
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Financial liberalisation, through increasing investment as well as the average productivity of capital, should stimulate economic growth, or so the theory goes. Bank lending unfortunately suffers adverse selection and moral hazard effects, to which the establishment and expansion of stock...
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This paper analyses the contribution of interest rates to explain recent house price developments in Spain trying to reconcile different pieces of evidence. On the one hand, empirical evidence supports the view that interest rates are a key variable to explain house price developments. As a...
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In this paper we decompose nominal interest rates into real risk-free rates, inflation expectations and risk premia using an affine model that takes as factors the observed inflation rate and the parameters generated in the zero yield curve estimation. We apply this model to the Spanish economy...
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