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We examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual output is rigorously recorded. By employing a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits the increase in Florida's...
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This paper investigates how different types of monetary policy have affected house prices in Finland, a small euro area … temporary impact on house prices in Finland, with the response to a balance sheet shock being smaller and fading out faster. The … peak of the effect of a policy rate shock on house prices in Finland arrives faster than in the whole euro area but the …
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Finland introduced the planet’s first carbon tax in 1990 to experiment with, to most economists, the best policy to …
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We compared forecasts of stock market volatility based on real-time and revised macroeconomic data. To this end, we used a new dataset on monthly real-time macroeconomic variables for Germany. The dataset covers the period 1994-2005. We used a statistical, a utility-based, and an options-based...
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This paper studies the effects of FOMC communication on U.S. financial markets’ returns and volatility using a GARCH model over the period from 1998 to 2006. We build a new data set that includes information on all FOMC speeches, post-meeting statements, monetary policy reports and...
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