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The ECB has adopted a variety of unconventional monetary policy measures since the Global Financial Crisis. In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy measures based on a review of the empirical literature and on theoretical considerations. Empirical assessments...
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Im Jahr 2012 hat das ifo Institut in einer Studie gezeigt, dass sich Staaten, die eine starke Abwertung ihrer Währung erfuhren, bereits zwei Jahre nach der Währungskrise wieder erholten und überdurchschnittliche Wachstumsraten aufwiesen. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird diese Untersuchung auf...
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Seit der Jahrtausendwende wird in Deutschland die im internationalen Vergleich schwache Investitionsentwicklung beklagt. Allerdings wird in der Diskussion häufig nur die nominale Investitionsquote betrachtet, d.h. der Anteil der nominalen Investitionen am nominalen Bruttoinlandsprodukt. Hierin...
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This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of monetary policy. I use branch-level data on deposit and loan rates to evaluate the monetary policy pass-through conditional on the level of local bank concentration and bank...
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We study monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with a variable credit spread and scope for central bank asset purchases to matter. A novel financial and labor market interaction generates an endogenous cost-push channel in the Phillips curve and a credit wedge in the IS curve. The "divine...
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Die Unternehmen in Deutschland sind seit 2021 mit starken Kostenanstiegen konfrontiert. Inwieweit geben die Unternehmen die Preiserhöhungen an ihre Kunden weiter? Basierend auf der Konjunkturumfrage des ifo Instituts zeigt sich eine unvollständige Preisweitergabe. Im Durchschnitt haben die...
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This paper examines the pass-through of cost-push shocks to customers at a granular level. Using unique firm-level survey data, we document five facts about pass-through across firms, sectors, and over time. We highlight a new channel relevant for pass-through: beliefs about the expected...
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The recent surge in inflation led many unions and firms to alter their bargaining and wage-setting policies. Using novel German firm-level survey data, we document the extent of state dependence in wage setting across firms and workers during periods of high and low inflation. We find state...
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Barro and King (1984) conjecture that shocks other than those to total factor productivity will have difficulty generating key business cycle comovements between output, consumption, investment and hours worked. Recent years have seen the emergence of a class of DSGE models in which aggregate...
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