The first chapter demonstrates that although it is possible to design utility functions that behave like empirical well-being, the functional forms relying on income adaptation and social comparisons put forward in the happiness literature fail to receive empirical validation. Under the income...

This paper presents new non-linear regression estimates of the relationship between inflation and economic growth for 80 countries over the period 1961 – 2000. We perform tests using the full sample of countries as well as sub-samples consisting of OECD countries, middle-income countries, and...

ESMA provides further details on trade reporting in updated EMIR Q&AThe European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today updated Question & Answers (Q&As) on the implementation of the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). These updated Q&As clarify, among others,...

We show that several shocks identifi ed without restrictions from a model, and frequently used in the empirical literature, display some persistence. We demonstrate that the two leading methods to recover impulse responses to shocks (moving average representations and local projections) treat...

Este documento describe los principales canales de transmisión de los efectos desbordamiento (spillovers) de las políticas fiscales nacionales a otros países de la zona del euro y analiza su magnitud utilizando diferentes modelos. En el contexto de la Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM), los...

Event: Presentation of the Annual Report 2021. Organized by: Banco de España