. China has followed a different highway construction strategy and has experienced more significant convergence across regions …

During the Great Moderation, macroeconomic volatility declined while firm markups increased. We document a causal … relationship between volatility and markups due to tacit collusion. We exploit the legalisation of interstate banking as an … 19 percentage point increase in aggregate markups. The effect is due to large firms and firms operating in non …

The integration of China into the global economy is one of the most spectacular events in economic history. This paper … investigates to what extent this process affects output growth and inflation in the advanced countries. A GVAR model is specified … to explore interdependencies between business cycles in China and industrial countries, including the US, the euro area …

The integration of China into the global economy is one of the most spectacular events in economic history. This paper … investigates to what extent this process affects output growth and inflation in the advanced countries. A GVAR model is specified … to explore interdependencies between business cycles in China and industrial countries, including the US, the euro area …

framework we examine the twelve potential intertemporal relationships between inflation, growth and their respective … uncertainties using US data. We find that high inflation is detrimental to output growth both directly and indirectly via the … nominal uncertainty. Output growth boosts inflation but mainly indirectly through a reduction in real uncertainty. Our …

framework we examine the twelve potential intertemporal relationships between inflation, growth and their respective … uncertainties using US data. We find that high inflation is detrimental to output growth both directly and indirectly via the … nominal uncertainty. Output growth boosts inflation but mainly indirectly through a reduction in real uncertainty. Our …

framework we examine the twelve potential intertemporal relationships between inflation, growth and their respective … uncertainties using US data. We find that high inflation is detrimental to output growth both directly and indirectly via the … nominal uncertainty. Output growth boosts inflation but mainly indirectly through a reduction in real uncertainty. Our …

the PC and explain the evolution of inflation and unemployment in the US from 1970 to 2006. Since our empirical … and inflation, while the monetary expansion was quite ineffective and led mainly to higher inflation. Finally, the …