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Monetary transmission in Germany: New Perspectives on Financial Constraints and Investment Spending
von Kalckreuth, Ulf - 2001
In order to obtain a better understanding of monetary transmission, this paper assesses the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in the German manufacturing sector. Our panel of financial statements contains 44,345 observations for 6,408 firms. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295716
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Monetary transmission in Germany : new perspectives on financial constraints and investment spending
Kalckreuth, Ulf von - 2001
In order to obtain a better understanding of monetary transmission, this paper assesses the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in the German manufacturing sector. Our panel of financial statements contains 44,345 observations for 6,408 firms. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419985
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Time-varying risk shocks and the zero lower bound
Strobel, Johannes; Lee, Gabriel S.; Salyer, Kevin Duff - 2019
This paper shows that increased volatility of Örm-level productivity can push the nominal interest rate to its lower bound with large amplification effects on macroeconomic aggregates. The framework combines a simple canonical Önancial accelerator model, time varying risk shocks, and a zero...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231163
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Fiscal policy shocks and stock prices in the United States
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theodoridis, Konstantinos - 2017
This paper uses a range of structural VARs to show that the response of US stock prices to fiscal shocks changed in 1980. Over the period 1955-1980 an expansionary spending or revenue shock was associated with modestly higher stock prices. After 1980, along with a decline in the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627039
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Fiscal policy shocks and stock prices in the United States
Mumtaz, Haroon; Theodoridis, Konstantinos - 2018
This paper uses a range of structural VARs to show that the response of US stock prices to fiscal shocks changed in 1980. Over the period 1955-1979 an expansionary spending or revenue shock was associated with modestly higher stock prices. After 1980, along with a decline in the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887044
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Agency costs and investment behavior
Dorofeenko, Viktor; Lee, Gabriel S.; Salyer, Kevin D. - 2005
How do differences in the creit channel affect investment behavior in the U.S. and the Euro area? To analyze this question, we calibrate an agency cost model of business cycles. We focus on two key components of the lending channel, the default premium associated with bank loans and bankruptcy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293733
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Risk shocks and housing markets
Dorofeenko, Viktor; Lee, Gabriel S.; Salyer, Kevin D. - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty in a multi-sector housing model with financial frictions. We include time varying uncertainty (i.e. risk shocks) in the technology shocks that affect housing production. The analysis demonstrates that risk shocks to the housing production sector are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294012
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A Vectorautoregressive Investment Model (VIM) and monetary policy transmission : panel evidence from German firms
Breitung, Jörg; Chirinko, Robert S.; Kalckreuth, Ulf von - 2003
investment spending as a VAR. Based on a panel of financial statement data for 6,408 German firms (44,345 datapoints … substantive conclusions, this paper demonstrate that the panel VAR approach is useful for modeling firm dynamics and real … realwirtschaftlicher und der finanzieller Sphäre einer Unternehmung bietet sich die Modellierung der Investitionsentscheidung als VAR an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432001
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Mortgage debt and time-varying monetary policy transmission
Finck, David; Schmidt, Jörg; Tillmann, Peter - 2018
household indebtedness. A timevarying parameter VAR model allows us to study the variation in the mortgage debt sensitivity to … quantitatively similar to the VAR results. A sacrifice ratio for mortgage debt reveals that a policy tightening directed towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803783
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Foreign effects of higher U.S. interest rates
Iacoviello, Matteo; Navarro, Gaston - 2018
This paper analyzes the spillovers of higher U.S. interest rates on economic activity in a large panel of 50 advanced and emerging economies. We allow the response of GDP in each country to vary according to its exchange rate regime, trade openness, and a vulnerability index that includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859442