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observed variables. Shock decompositions of the output and the inflation rate revealed the driving forces of the business … Poland. …
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We find that deep contractions have highly persistent scarring effects, depressing the level of GDP at least a decade hence. Drawing on a panel of 24 advanced and emerging economies from 1970 to the present, we show that these effects are nonlinear and asymmetric: there is no such persistence...
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Lithuania's current credit cycle highlights the strong link between housing prices and credit. We explore this relationship in more detail by analyzing the main features of credit, housing price, and output cycles in Baltic and Nordic countries during1995-2017. We find a high degree of...
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the shock compared to countries which did not have such preemptive policies in place. We use the episodes of Taper Tantrum … effects where preemptive policies are ex-ante by construction and cannot be put in place as a response to the shock ex …
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Extending and modifying the canonical New Keynesian (NK) model, this study provides a novel approach to examine the impact of anticipated shocks called "news shocks" on business cycles. The analysis shows that news shocks are less stressful for an economy than commonly assumed. The main results...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic activity using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogenous agents and a stylized banking sector. We show that frictions in credit supply amplify the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic...
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Empirical evidence demonstrates that credit standards, including lending margins and collateral requirements, move in a countercyclical direction. In this study, we construct a small open economy model with financial frictions to generate the countercyclical movement in credit standards. Our...
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find that (i) the US economy is well described by a number of structural shocks between two and five. Focusing on the four-shock …
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of narrative information to sharpen shock identification in a structural VAR analysis based on sign restrictions …
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We identify an inflationary technology news shock as the leading source of business cycle variations for the postwar U ….S. economy. This shock acts like a demand shock: it induces strong positive comovement in real quantities - GDP, consumption … technological innovations reduce inflation. The technology news shock became the predominant source of the business cycle from the …
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