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We document stark asynchronicity across U.S. states, particularly across groups of states whose populations have voted consistently Democrat or consistently Republican in national elections; and we show that their risk-sharing channels differ substantially. However, we find that these groups of...
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This paper sheds light on the impact of global macroeconomic uncertainty on the euro area economy. We build on the methodology proposed by Jurado et al. (2015) and estimate global as well as country-specific measures of economic uncertainty for fifteen key euro area trade partners and the euro...
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After hitting the lower bound on interest rates, the Eurosystem engaged in a public sector purchase programme (PSPP … uncertainty in an analysis of these policies. We model FG as an anticipated temporary interest rate peg. The degree of parameter …
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This study examines the asymmetric effects of uncertainties in monetary policy on the demand for money in Greece. In doing so, it introduces and uses the monetary policy uncertainty (MPU) index, which can probably be a very appropriate and robust explanatory variable in demand-for-money models....
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We study the relationship between monetary policy and long-term rates in a structural, general equilibrium model estimated on both macro and yields data from the United States. Regime shifts in the conditional variance of productivity shocks, or "uncertainty shocks", are an important model...
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This paper criticises the standard methodology used to measure the importance of different channels of risk sharing in federal states such as the one used in Asdrubali et al.'s (1996) seminal contribution. It argues that the methodology chosen in these papers systematically underestimates the...
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Using micro data from the 2015 Dutch CentERpanel, we examine whether trust in the European Central Bank (ECB … find that higher trust in the ECB lowers inflation expectations on average, and significantly reduces uncertainty about … future inflation. Moreover, results from quantile regressions suggest that trusting the ECB increases (lowers) inflation …
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The paper adds to the literature as follows: starting from the benchmark model of Asdrubali et al. (1996), we reproduce the original specification with a data set obtained from the authors as well as possible. In a second step, this specification is brought to euro area data. Again, the results...
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