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expected exchange rate depreciations (appreciations) for high (low) interest rate currencies, suggesting that disaster risk is … priced in currency markets. To study the price of disaster risk, we propose a simple structural model that includes both … Gaussian and disaster risk and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. Estimating the model over the …
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This paper discusses two simple decompositions for aggregate productivity analysis in the presence of distortions and in general equilibrium. The first is a generalization of Baqaee and Farhi (2017) and the second is due to Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). In the process, we propose a new...
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How does an increase in the size of the market due to fertility, immigration, or trade integration, affect welfare and real GDP? We study this question using a model with heterogeneous firms, fixed costs, and monopolistic competition. We decompose the change in welfare into changes in technical...
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A tension between entry and rents lies at the core of a general theory of aggregation with scale effects. This paper …
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We study supply and demand shocks in a general disaggregated model with multiple sectors, multiple factors, input-output linkages, downward nominal wage rigidities, credit-constraints, and a zero lower bound. We use the model to understand how the Covid-19 crisis, an omnibus of supply and demand...
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We provide a general non-parametric formula for aggregating microeconomic shocks in general equilibrium economies with distortions such as taxes, markups, frictions to resource reallocation, and nominal rigidities. We show that the macroeconomic impact of a shock can be boiled down into two...
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correlate their risk exposures. Second, private borrowers may deliberately choose to increase their interest-rate sensitivity … requirement coupled with monitoring of the quality of liquid assets. We establish the robustness of our insights when the set of …
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The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has carefully analyzed their...
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We propose a new model of exchange rates, which yields a theory of the forward premium puzzle. Our explanation combines … occur and affect each country's productivity. Each country's exposure to disaster risk varies over time according to a mean …-reverting process. Risky countries command high risk premia: they feature a depreciated exchange rate and a high interest rate. As their …
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