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From the horse’s mouth: surveying responses to stress by banks and insurers

Brinkhoff, Jeroen; Langfield, Sam; Weeken, Olaf - 2018

identify feedback loops, the European Systemic Risk Board has developed macroprudential surveys that ask banks and insurers how … they would behave in a macroeconomic stress scenario. In a pilot application of these surveys, we find evidence of herding … usefulness of macroprudential surveys in identifying feedback loops. …

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Consequences of future climate policy: Regional economies, financial markets, and the direction of innovation

von Schickfus, Marie-Theres - 2021

With the Paris Agreement of 2016, 189 nations signed a legally binding document to keep global warming below 2 C, and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C. It was recognized that this would reduce climate change impacts substantially. All signatories submitted "Intended...

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ECB Consumer Expectations Survey: An overview and first evaluation

Bańkowska, Katarzyna; Borlescu, Ana Maria; … - 2021

The Consumer Expectations Survey (CES) is an important new tool for analysing euro area household economic behaviour … and expectations. This new survey covers a range of important topical areas including consumption and income, inflation …

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Human capital and education policy: Evidence from survey data

Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021

investigates the impact of gender norms on labor-supply expectations of adolescents. Chapter 3 analyzes the effects of the Corona … methodological debate around survey measurement by investigating belief elicitation in large-scale online surveys. …

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Macroeconomic Aspects of European Integration: Fiscal Policy, Trade Integration and the European Business Cycle

Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús; Pfaffermayr, Michael; Amador, … - 2011

We analyze the role of fiscal policy and intra-European trade in business cycle synchronization in the EU for the period 1995-2008. There is a broad consensus that the relationship between fiscal policy and business cycle comovements and between trade integration and cyclical synchronization are...

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Electricity Use as an Indicator of U.S. Economic Activity

Arora, Vipin; Lieskovsky, Jozef - 2016

We argue for the resurrection of an old idea: electricity use as an indicator of U.S. economic activity. Our analysis relies on associations–the 40-year correlation between growth rates in real GDP and electricity use can be as high as 89% –and intuition. Electricity use and economic...

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Real-Time Measures of the Output Gap and Fiscal Policy Stance

Virkola, Tuomo - 2014

This paper studies real-time measures of the output gap and fiscal policy stance estimates for EU countries. We construct a comprehensive real-time data set on fiscal forecasts and study whether there are systematic differences between the European Commission and IMF estimates of the output gap...

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Business Fluctuations, Job Flows and Trade Unions - Dynamics in the Economy

Schirwitz, Beate - 2013

This study was prepared by Beate Schirwitz while she was working at the Ifo Institute’s Dresden Branch. It was completed in February 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Faculty of Law, Management, and Economics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in July 2012. It focuses on a...

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Education, skills & labor-market success: Microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments

Hampf, Franziska Bernadette - 2020

The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor-market outcomes. Based on high-quality skill data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills, Chapter 2 studies the effect of schooling on cognitive skills, exploiting the staggered...

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Understanding low wage growth in the euro area and European countries

Nickel, Christiane (contributor); Bobeica, Elena (contributor) - 2019

Despite notable improvements in the labour market since 2013, wage growth in the euro area was subdued and substantially overpredicted in 2013-17. This paper summarises the findings of an ESCB expert group on the reasons for low wage growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments...

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