Microeconomic lumpiness matters for macroeconomics. According to our DSGE model, it explains roughly 60% of the smoothing in the investment response to aggregate shocks. The remaining 40% is explained by general equilibrium forces. The central role played by micro frictions for aggregate...

A vast body of literature endorses the fact that the changes in the macroeconomic conditions of an economy do impact banks’ performance, simultaneously or with a lag. It is also possible that the feedback effects of bank instability on real economic activity could amplify the fluctuations...

One of key outcomes of open economy macroeconomics refers to a crucial importance of an investment-saving relation affecting a current account determination. However, despite a relative diversity in exchange rate regimes in European transition economies, there is still a substantial potential to...