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Managing households' expectations with unconventional policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2021

Binding lower bounds on interest rates and large government deficits limit the scope of fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate households' spending through financial intermediaries and firms. Policymakers have thus been implementing unconventional policies that aim to increase households'...

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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …

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Firm-specific productivity risk over the business cycle : facts and aggregate implications

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

effect of time-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment …

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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

of firm-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneousfirm RBC model with quantitatively realistic … of the steady state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle … ; cross-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks …

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The cross-section of firms over the business cycle : new facts and a DSGE exploration

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian - 2009

-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with quantitatively realistic countercyclically disperse … state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle, with a …-sectional firm dynamics ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks ; idiosyncratic shocks ; heterogeneous firms …

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Short-time work and precautionary savings

Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta; Zessner-Spitzenberg, … - 2024

During the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries used short-time work (subsidized reductions in working hours) to preserve employment. This paper documents that short-time work affects the behavior of firms (supply) and households (demand). First, using household survey data from Germany, we show...

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Short-time work and precautionary savings

Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2021

In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries use short-time work schemes (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. We build a New Keynesian model with...

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Short-time work and precautionary savings

Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta; Zessner-Spitzenberg, … - 2025

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Short-time work and precautionary savings

Dengler, Thomas; Gehrke, Britta - 2022

In the Covid-19 crisis, most OECD countries have used short-time work (subsidized working time reductions) to preserve employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in recessions. First, we show that the consumption risk...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332143

Helicopter Money : Survey Evidence on Expectation Formation and Consumption Behavior

Djuric, Uros - 2019

The effects of helicopter money on expectations and economic outcomes are empirically largely unexplored. We fielded a representative survey among the German population, randomly assigning respondents to various unconventional monetary policy scenarios that raise household income. We find that...

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