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Explaining ASEAN-3â€™s Investment Puzzle A Tale of Two Sectors

Zhou, Yong Sarah - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

The prolonged investment decline in post-Asian crisis emerging Asia, in contrast to the swift recovery of economic growth, has remained a puzzle. This paper shows that the post-crisis investment recession has been mainly concentrated in the nontradable sector, and hypothesizes that the slowdown...

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Transmission of Financial Stress in Europe: The Pivotal Role of Italy and Spain, but not Greece

González-Hermosillo, Brenda; Johnson, Christian A - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

This paper proposes a stochastic volatility model to measure sovereign financial distress. It examines how key European sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads affect each other; specifically, the paper analyses the volatility structure of Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal....

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Finance: Economic Lifeblood or Toxin?

Pagano, Marco - Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF) - 2012

In the past two decades, academic research has produced massive evidence of the beneficial role of financial development for growth and the allocation of investment. Our current vision, however, is dominated by instances of dysfunctional behavior of financial markets associated with acute and...

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Fiscal Policy in a Financial Crisis: Standard Policy vs. Bank Rescue Measures

Kollmann, Robert; Roeger, Werner; Veld, Jan in't - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

A key dimension of fiscal policy during the financial crisis was massive government support for the banking system. The macroeconomic effects of that support have, so far, received little attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap, using a quantitative dynamic model with a banking...

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Too-Systemic-To-Fail: What Option Markets Imply About Sector-wide Government Guarantees

Kelly, Bryan; Lustig, Hanno; van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We examine the pricing of financial crash insurance during the 2007-2009 financial crisis in U.S. option markets. A large amount of aggregate tail risk is missing from the price of financial sector crash insurance during the financial crisis. The difference in costs of out-of-the-money put...

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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession: Cross-Country Evidence

Sala, Luca; Söderström, Ulf; Trigari, Antonella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

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Time Varying Risk Aversion

Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We use a repeated survey of an Italian bank’s clients to test whether investors’ risk aversion increases following the 2008 financial crisis. We find that both a qualitative and a quantitative measure of risk aversion increases substantially after the crisis. After considering standard...

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Protectionism during the crisis: Tit-for-tat or chicken games?

Boffa, Mauro; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

During the recent financial crisis many countries resorted to protectionist measures to try to boost demand for domestically-produced goods. In this paper we explore the extent to which the adoption of protectionist measures led to retaliation by other countries undermining the increase in...

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What Determines Government Spending Multipliers?

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...

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Fiscal Policy, Banks and the Financial Crisis

In''t Veld, Jan; Kollmann, Robert; Ratto, Marco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper studies the effectiveness of Euro Area (EA) fiscal policy, during the recent financial crisis, using an estimated New Keynesian model with a bank. A key dimension of policy in the crisis was massive government support for banks—that dimension has so far received little attention in...

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