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We study the identification of policy shocks in Bayesian proxy VARs for the case that the instrument consists of sparse qualitative observations indicating the signs of certain shocks. We propose two identification schemes, i.e. linear discriminant analysis and a non-parametric sign concordance...
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We study the identification of policy shocks in Bayesian proxy VARs for the case that the instrument consists of sparse qualitative observations indicating the signs of certain shocks. We propose two identification schemes, i.e. linear discriminant analysis and a non-parametric sign concordance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138603
China's industrial policies ("Five-Year Plans") displace U.S. production/employment and heighten plant closures in the same industries as those targeted by the policies in China. The impact was not anticipated by the stock market, but U.S. companies in the "treated industries" suffer a valuation...
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US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...
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emerging markets during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The investigation is achieved by a structural vector …. The results suggest that one percent of a negative shock on the U.S. federal funds rate results in about 12% (14%) of a … that the U.S. monetary policy shock explains about 20% of the exchange rate volatility for the average country, with a …
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In response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, there has been a complementary approach to monetary and fiscal …
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In response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, there has been a complementary approach to monetary and fiscal …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has materially affected U.S. consumer behavior and business operations in many important aspects. This note focuses on the changes in banks’ balance sheets and demonstrates how we could apply a novel measure of portfolio similarity to balance sheet data and assess the...
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