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in a panel of 34 countries. Pass-through coefficients are highly shock-dependent: if the appreciation is driven by a US … expansionary shock, the positive effects of stronger global demand - the "real" channel-dominate the negative effects of a stronger … stock valuations up to 2.2 (2.5) and 8% (15%) respectively, while if the appreciation is driven by a monetary policy shock …
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What are the cross-border spillovers from major economies' quantitative easing (QE) policies to their trading partners? We provide evidence by concentrating on spillovers from the US to Canada during the zero lower bound period when QE policies were actively used. We identify QE shocks in the US...
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Business cycles are substantially correlated across countries. Yet most existing models are not able to generate substantial transmission through international trade. We show that the nature of such transmission depends fundamentally on the features determining the responsiveness of labor supply...
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area. We estimate a Bayesian VAR with sign restrictions, using standard restrictions for the domestic impact of the shock …
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Time-varying volatility plays a crucial role in understanding business cycles in emerging market economies. However, the literature treats volatility as an exogenous process. This paper endogenizes time-varying volatility in the debt premium and total factor productivity into a standard small...
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The last twenty years have brought a bulk of inconsistent results on the determinants of business cycle synchronization (BCS). Researchers have usually focused their attention on a limited set of possible determinants, not accounting for model uncertainty. For these reasons, Bayesian Model...
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I identify new patterns in countries' economic performance over the 2007-2014 period based on proximity through distance, trade, and finance to the US subprime mortgage and Eurozone debt crisis areas. To understand the causes of the cross-country variation, I develop an open economy model with...
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price shock increases the firm's external debt and the cost of the new debt. In consequence,the aggregate investment … commodity price shock is negative. We also find that, turning the financial channel off, the real GDP cumulative response in …
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The U.S. dollar's nominal effective exchange rate closely tracks global financial conditions, which themselves show a cyclical pattern. Over that cycle, world asset prices, leverage, and capital flows move in concert with global growth, especially influencing the fortunes of emerging and...
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in a panel of 34 countries. Pass-through coefficients are highly shock-dependent: if the appreciation is driven by a US … expansionary shock, the positive effects of stronger global demand - the “real” channel dominate the negative effects of a stronger … stock valuations up to 2.2 (2.5) and 8% (15%) respectively, while if the appreciation is driven by a monetary policy shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403806