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This paper investigates the short-run impact of Investment-Specific Technology (IST) Shocks on macroeconomics variables … namely; Aggregate Investment, Aggregate Consumption and Gross Domestic Product using the VAR(p) model and quarterly data of …, yet, a shock to IST influence a change in aggregate consumption. Inferences from impulse response function (IRF) showed …
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shock to the sector - a measure of the systemic risk of each sector. Tail centrality is theoretically and empirically very …
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shocks. When examining detailed investment sub-categories, our estimates suggest that the most irreversible investment …
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this approach facilitates the close-to-realtime identification of both the magnitude of an uncertainty shock as well as its … uncertainty shocks on fixed investment and other macroeconomic variables. Our results document the asymmetric nature of …
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In this paper, we analyze the impact of external uncertainty shocks on the Korean economy, focusing on Russian geopolitical risks and U.S. monetary policy uncertainty. We find that increases in external uncertainties negatively affect the Korean macroeconomy, with a particularly pronounced...
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This paper analyzes the macroeconomic adjustment in commodity-exporting countries to commodity price shocks. First, I estimate a heterogenous panel SVAR using data from 22 commodity-exporting economies spanning the period 1980-2017. I find that commodity terms of trade shocks are an important...
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subsequent recovery in the US. The Great Recession was mainly caused by a large demand shock and by the ZLB on the interest rate …
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Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is producing a global health and economic crisis. The entire globe is facing the trade-off between health and recessionary effects. This paper investigates this trade-off according to a macro-dynamic perspective. We set up and simulate a Dynamic Stochastic General...
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The DSGE models are based on hypotheses that have the effect of excluding the possibility of severe financial and economic crises with the consequent policy implications going in the laissez-faire direction. The hypothesized unique and stable equilibrium in combination with rational expectations...
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