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models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …
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This paper focuses on the effect of uncertainty as reflected by financial market variables on subjective well-being. The analysis is based on Eurobarometer surveys, covering 20 countries over the period from 2000 to 2013. Individuals report lower levels of life satisfaction in times of higher...
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Die Konjunkturpakete I und II der Bundesregierung sollen zur Bewältigung der wirtschaftlichen Krise beitragen und die wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland verbessern. Ein wesentlicher Bestandteil sind zusätzliche öffentliche Investitionen in Höhe von 19,7 Milliarden Euro in...
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50 Milliarden Euro - mit einem Konjunkturpaket in bislang ungekannter Höhe haben Bund und Länder auf die schwere Rezession reagiert. Mit 23,6 Milliarden Euro sind fast die Hälfte dieser Mittel für öffentliche Investitionen vorgesehen. Diese schuldenfinanzierten Maßnahmen sollen nicht nur...
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In this note we demonstrate that in affine models for bilateral exchange rates, the nature of return interdependence during crises depends on the tail properties of the fundamentals' distributions. We denote crisis linkages as either strong or weak, in the sense that the dependence remains or...
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The contribution of this paper is to revisit the Early Warning System (EWS) literature by analysing selected episodes of financial market crisis, i.e. those preceded by a spell of credit and real estate expansions. The aim is to disentangle instances when this constitutes a natural phenomenon...
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Banks increasingly use short-term wholesale funds to supplement traditional retail deposits. Existing literature mainly points to the "bright side" of wholesale funding: sophisticated financiers can monitor banks, disciplining bad but refinancing good ones. This paper models a "dark side" of...
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This paper aims to shed light on the characteristics and particularly the determinants of credit-less recoveries. After building a dataset and documenting some stylised facts of credit-less recoveries in emerging market economies, this paper uses panel probit models to analyse key determinants...
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We use financial accounts data at sector level to construct financial networks for individual euro area countries. We then connect the country-level networks to one large “Macro Network”, using information on cross-border linkages between the national banking sectors. We then evaluate the...
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