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Recent research developed under the ECB research task force on Monetary Policy, Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability highlights the existence of trade-offs and spillovers that monetary policy and macroprudential authorities face when deciding on their policy interventions. Monetary...
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We document novel survey-based facts about preferred long-run inflation rates among US consumers. Consumers on average prefer a 0.20% annual inflation rate, well below the Federal Reserve's 2% target. Inflation preferences not only correlate with demographic and socioeconomic characteristics,...
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In this paper, we analyze how sources of political influence relate to the actual regulatory treatment of distressed banks and to the expectation of bank support provided by the government. We assemble a unique dataset that links U.S. banks' sources of influence (e.g., lobbying expenditures,...
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JEL Classification: E41, C22, C32
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JEL Classification: C22, C32, E41
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Beyer, Doornik and Hendry (2000, 2001) show analytically that three out of four aggregation methods yield problematic … the choice of aggregation method. JEL Classification: C32, C42, E41 …
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The issue of forecast aggregation is to determine whether it is better to forecast a series directly or instead … results, it is generally accepted that forecast aggregation is an empirical issue. Empirical results in the literature often … go unexplained. This leaves forecasters in the dark when confronted with the option of forecast aggregation. We take our …
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We examine the two-level nested Constant Elasticity of Substitution production function where both capital and labor are disaggregated in two classes. We propose a normalized system estimation method to retrieve estimates of the inter- and intra-class elasticities of substitution and...
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We estimate the elasticity of substitution of a country’s imports, and that of its exports on the world market, for EU countries using sector level trade data. We present a new empirical strategy based on the identification scheme by Feenstra (1994), which enables the estimation of...
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The ability of institutions to effectively manage and aggregate risk-related data is an essential precondition for sound decision-making and strong risk governance. This applies to any data used to steer and manage institutions, both strategically and operationally, as well as data used for...
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