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The economic and financial crisis has generated a significant amount of adverse effects in all European economies, although with substantial differences by countries. For Spain the effects have been severe. From the last third of the last century until the middle of 2008 the economy experienced...
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This paper shows that increased volatility of Örm-level productivity can push the nominal interest rate to its lower bound with large amplification effects on macroeconomic aggregates. The framework combines a simple canonical Önancial accelerator model, time varying risk shocks, and a zero...
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We examine the dynamic effects and empirical role of TFP news shocks in the context of frictions in financial markets. We document two new facts using VAR methods which provide robust evidence on the importance credit spreads for the propagation of news shocks. A DSGE model with financial...
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In Catalonia, between 2008 and 2014, the rate of youth unemployment has exponentially increased and it has turned into a structural problem: when the fourth quarter of 2014 ended, among the people under the age of 30, the number of unemployed people was 1,495,600, 645,000 more than in the first...
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extreme inflation rates. The main implication of the results is that a seemingly non-distortionary policy, such as more credit …
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We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the … robust for different estimators and financial development measures?suggest that inflation presented deleterious effects on … Brazil by high rates of inflation, have detrimental effects to financial development, a variable that is important for …
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This paper analyzes the link between inflation and democracy in developing countries. In order to address the … positive causal relationship between inflation and democracy. It appears that democracy increases inflation because democracy …, Ghana, and Sri Lanka better illustrate the result relating to the relationship between inflation and democracy in my sample. …
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We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995) on data from the inflation and deflation periods in Japan … during both inflation and deflation, is strongly supported. The data are less clear on, but does not reject, the hypothesis … that the parameter on the standard deviation changes sign between inflation and deflation periods. …
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