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The evolution of Spanish unemployment has been quite idiosyncratic. The full employment levels of the early seventies were followed by unemployment rates that were the highest within the OECD countries in the aftermath of the oil price shocks. While unemployment was extremely persistent in most...
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The interest rate is generally considered as an important driver of macroeconomic investment. As an innovation, this … paper derives the exact shape of the "hysteretic" impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under … capital stock and, explicitly, of stochastic changes on the interest rate-investment hysteresis. Starting with hysteresis …
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national security as of March 2022. Fourth, firm-level risk perceptions skewed heavily to the downside in spring 2020 but …. Fifth, our survey evidence suggests that elevated uncertainty is exerting only mild restraint on capital investment plans …
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We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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took place in Spain on February 23, 1981. Although short-lived and unsuccessful, the event generated stress and fear among …
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Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their consumption after an uncertainty shock. We study household savings and expenditure adjustment...
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This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … techniques, we estimate a structural labour market model for each group and evaluate the unemployment contributions of investment …
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Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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This paper studies the role of social policies in different European welfare states regarding minimum income protection and active inclusion. The core focus lies on crisis resilience, i.e. the capacity of social policy arrangements to contain poverty and inequality and avoid exclusion before,...
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A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers … the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000 manufacturing plants. We find three key results. First, investment is … associated with about a 6% reduction in investment. Second, uncertainty is also negatively related to employment growth and …
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