This paper explores how much firm-paid employee benefits and firms' financial conditions have contributed to delayed employment recoveries relative to output since 1990, using a DSGE model. Empirically, I document the underexplored pro-cyclicality of per worker benefit costs. Post-1990 period...

Using a unique data set based on US commercial banks and county level loan origination for the period 2005-2010, we measure whether banks that benefited from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) increase small business loan originations. We propose an identification strategy which exploits...

Die Analyse der aktuellsten Entwicklungen im Handelsstreit zwischen der EU und den USA diskutiert zunächst die generellen handelspolitischen Rahmenbedingungen für die Auseinandersetzung und die Bedeutung des Außenhandels mit den USA für die österreichische Wirtschaft. Wie eine...

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...