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specific language like 'fear', 'risk', 'hedging', 'opinion', and, 'crisis', as well as 'positive' and 'negative' sentiments, in …
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Recession. We find that uncertainty shocks have a significant impact on economic activity in the UK, depressing industrial … industrial production during the Great Recession …
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The relationship between current account developments and changes in the macroeconomic environment remains a key issue in open economy macroeconomics. This paper extends the standard intertemporal optimizing model of the current account to incorporate the effects of macroeconomic uncertainty on...
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Emerging markets business cycle models treat default risk as part of an exogenous interest rate on working capital …
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We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and sectoral channels. Using S&P500 data from the first quarter of 1957 to third quarter of 2014, we construct separate indices to measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and...
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Are uncertainty shocks a major source of business cycle fluctuations? This paper studies the effect of a mean preserving shock to the variance of aggregate total factor productivity (macro uncertainty) and to the dispersion of entrepreneurs' idiosyncratic productivity (micro uncertainty) in a...
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We augment a linearized dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with a tractable endogenous risk mechanism … their conditional distributions. In particular, the model matches the key stylized facts of growth at risk. Accounting for …
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develop a macro-financial structural model with two novel features. First, we include idiosyncratic and aggregate risk in a …
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This paper presents a modeling framework that delivers joint forecasts of indicators of systemic real risk and systemic … financial risk, as well as stress-tests of these indicators as impulse responses to structural shocks identified by standard … of out-of sample forecasting power for tail risk realizations of real activity for several countries, suggesting the …
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