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The paper empirically investigates the economic resilience of Western German regions in the wake of the Great Recession … specialization, related and unrelated variety) and the explicit subdivision of shortterm resilience into resistance and recovery. The … of short-term resilience entails the risk of imprecise, if not false conclusions on the driving mechanisms stabilizing …
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Recession, as well as the V-shaped recoveries that followed the oil shock recessions. …
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The Brazilian economy in 2015 was afflicted by a lethal combination of decelerating activity and accelerating inflation. Expectations for 2016 are equally or even more adverse, since the effects of rising unemployment emerge only after a lag. The domestic debate has pitted analysts who believe...
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We estimate a nonlinear VAR to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty shocks originating in the US on the Canadian unemployment rate in booms and busts. We find strong evidence in favor of asymmetric spillover effects. Unemployment in Canada is shown to react to uncertainty shocks in...
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eliminating frictions that hamper efficient allocation of resources in factor markets can be seen as a positive shock that will …
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The study examines the role of global predictors on national monetary policy formation for Kenya and Ghana within the New Keynesian DSGE framework. We developed and automatically calibrated our DSGE model using the Bayesian estimator, which made our model robust to rigorous stochastic number of...
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The goal of this paper is to provide stylized facts on recovery from economic downturns and to evaluate the role of macroeconomic policies in promoting recovery. In particular, we examine gross domestic product (GDP) recessions and financial downturns (credit contractions and stock price...
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