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Balance Sheet Interlinkages and Macro-Financial Risk Analysis in the Euro Area

Kavonius, Ilja Kristian; Castrén, Olli - 2009

The financial crisis has highlighted the need for models that can identify counterparty risk exposures and shock transmission processes at the systemic level. We use the euro area financial accounts (flow of funds) data to construct a sector-level network of bilateral balance sheet exposures and...

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Social returns to education

Canton, Erik - 2007

This paper presents new evidence on the social returns to education within a macroeconomic growth regression framework. I use improved schooling data and a macro version of the Mincer relationship between education and wages for individual workers. The results suggest that an increase by one...

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The impact of high and growing government debt on economic growth

Checherita, Cristina; Rother, Philipp - 2010

This paper investigates the average impact of government debt on per-capita GDP growth in twelve euro area countries …—beyond which the government debt-to-GDP ratio has a deleterious impact on long-term growth—at about 90-100% of GDP. Confidence … around 70-80% of GDP, which calls for even more prudent indebtedness policies. At the same time, there is evidence that the …

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Imposing parsimony in cross-country growth regressions

Jarociński, Marek - 2010

The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many of the considered variables need to be excluded from...

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Theoretical notes on bubbles and the current crisis

Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - 2011

We explore a view of the crisis as a shock to investor sentiment that led to the collapse of a bubble or pyramid scheme in financial markets. We embed this view in a standard model of the financial accelerator and explore its empirical and policy implications. In particular, we show how the...

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