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Asset Returns, the Business Cycle, and the Labor Market : A Sensitivity Analysis for the German Economy

Heer, Burkhard - 2013

We review the labor market implications of recent real-business-cycle models that successfully replicate the empirical equity premium. We document the fact that all models considered in this survey with the exception of Boldrin, Christiano, and Fisher (2001) imply a negative correlation of...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2021

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015

We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...

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The Impact of Macro News and Central Bank Communication on Emerging European Forex Markets

Égert, Balázs - 2013

news and communication along with the estimated exchange rate misalignment on exchange rate as well as its volatility …

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Business Cycles, International Trade and Capital Flows : Evidence from Latin America

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within...

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Recent Estimates of Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Import Prices in the Euro Area

Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2015

This paper provides an update on the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) estimates for 12 Euro area (EA) countries. First, based on quarterly data over the 1990-2012 period, our study does not find a significant heterogeneity in the degree of pass-through across the monetary union members, in...

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Long Memory and Fractional Integration in High Frequency Data on the US Dollar/British Pound Spot Exchange Rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of a high-frequency financial time series dataset. It focuses on temporal aggregation and other features of the data, and how they might affect the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a...

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A Reappraisal of the Border Effect on Relative Price Volatility

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2013

Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and … that exchange rate fluctuations explain about one-third of the volatility increase. In re-evaluating the border effect …, this study shows that cross-country heterogeneity in price volatility can lead to significant bias in measuring the border …

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia

Schnabl, Gunther - 2021

The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia. Exchange … panel estimations provide evidence for a negative impact of exchange rate volatility on growth both in Emerging Europe and …

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International Portfolio Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility for Emerging Markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly … probability Markov-switching model. We find that net equity (bond) inflows drive the exchange rate to a high (low) volatility … state. In particular, net bond inflows increase the probability of remaining in the low volatility state in the case of …

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