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This paper estimates a three-region macroeconomic model to analyse the key drivers of Germany's GDP, inflation, and … wage growth during the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation surge. Incorporating COVID-related demand and supply shocks, trade … domestic and global lockdown shocks, (ii) the 2021–2022 inflation surge resulted from rising commodity prices, recovering …
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This paper estimates a three-region macroeconomic model to analyse the key drivers of Germany’s GDP, inflation, and … wage growth during the COVID-19 pandemic and inflation surge. Incorporating COVID-related demand and supply shocks, trade … domestic and global lockdown shocks, (ii) the 2021–2022 inflation surge resulted from rising commodity prices, recovering …
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The COVID-19 pandemic is characterized by a recurring sequence of peaks and troughs. This article proposes a regime-switching unobserved components (UC) approach to model the trend of COVID-19 infections as a function of this ebb and flow pattern. Estimated regime probabilities indicate the...
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including US, Brazil and Russia are still not able to contain the pandemic with the US having the worst performance. Furthermore …
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This paper illustrates a case where an increase of the in-terest rates improves the economic activity and reduces incomeinequality. This theoretical exercise deals with a simple model ofdisequilibrium with accountant identities of budget constraints. Inaddition, and following previous models,...
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This paper studies the evolution of the natural interest rate in five Southeast Asian countries and considers the effect of economic shocks on the natural interest rate in these countries. The natural interest rate is the interest rate that would prevail in an economy in equilibrium and in the...
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We examine the financial crisis in the European corporate bond market following the COVID-19 pandemic and assess the effectiveness of the ECB's QE program, PEPP, in mitigating it. Using credit (Z-spread) and liquidity (scaled bid-ask spread) spreads, we find that the crisis elevated Z-spreads of...
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We estimate the option value of municipal liquidity by studying bond market activity and public sector hiring decisions when government budgets are severely distressed. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design, we exploit lending eligibility population cutoffs introduced by the federal...
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This paper studies the evolution of the natural interest rate in five Southeast Asian countries and considers the effect of economic shocks on the natural interest rate in these countries. The natural interest rate is the interest rate that would prevail in an economy in equilibrium and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545924