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Das Umfeld niedriger Zinsen ist weniger auf die Geldpolitik, sondern mehr auf globale Trends in der … höherer natürlicher Realzins ist auch für die Wirksamkeit der Geldpolitik förderlich, um die Probleme durch das Erreichen der …The low interest rate environment is less due to monetary policy and more due to global trends in investment and …
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Empirical evidence demonstrates that credit standards, including lending margins and collateral requirements, move in a countercyclical direction. In this study, we construct a small open economy model with financial frictions to generate the countercyclical movement in credit standards. Our...
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Over the past 15 years there has been remarkable progress in the specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Central banks in developed and emerging market economies have become increasingly interested in their usefulness for policy analysis and...
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Supporters of the Austrian School of Economics and a number of empirical studies have claimed that the increasing number of "zombie" companies is a supply-side reason for the low growth rates in Europe. Often, these studies cite empirical findings for Japan to justify their claims, and conclude...
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Business investment in the euro area strongly declined during the Global Financial Crisis and the Sovereign Debt Crisis … analyse the sluggish recovery in business investment in the euro area and the role of monetary policy in three steps. We … investigate the main factors that have impeded business investment since the Global Financial Crisis. We empirically analyse how …
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formulate a model of financing. New Keynesian theory emphasizes that a firm's net worth influences investment decisions and … banks lending reaction to the net worth ratio is more elastic than investment reaction. When the steady state is the saddle …
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Understanding the structural change in catching-up regions and the spatial distribution of economic sectors is essential for designing comprehensive policy strategies to promote balanced economic development. This study examines the economic restructuring of the 11 central and eastern European...
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The interest rate sensitivity of investment has often played an important role in macroeconomic models. However, many … vector autoregressive (VAR) models do not include investment to the list of variables. In this paper, we empirically … investigate the size and the evolution of the interest rate sensitivity of investment for the United States and the four largest …
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Economic theory suggests that monetary policy can be used to stabilize an economy. However, the ability of monetary … investment. Empirical results suggest that the impact of the interest rates on investment depends on the level of the inflation … rate. The size of the effect of interest rates on investment gets weaker as the inflation rate increases suggesting that …
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The interest rate sensitivity of investment has often played an important role in macroeconomic models. However, many … vector autoregressive (VAR) models do not include investment to the list of variables. In this paper, we empirically … investigate the size and the evolution of the interest rate sensitivity of investment for the United States and the four largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290511