In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...

Asymmetric persistence of accounting income is often tested in a regression of changes in earnings on lagged changes in earnings, including an interaction term for negative changes (see Basu [1997] or Ball et al. [2009] for a recent overview). In this note we propose an alternative, but closely...

We evaluate the proposal for official dollarization in Costa Rica by applying a new approach to measure the business cycle comovements with the United States. While the literature often focuses on the correlation of shocks, we point out that the response of each country to the shocks is also an...

Staatsausgaben und Steuereinnahmen verursachen nicht nur einen direkten Impuls, sondern lösen auch eine Multiplikatorwirkung aus. Die Erhöhung des Einkommens führt zu einer Ausweitung des privaten Konsums, somit zu einer weiteren Nachfrageerhöhung und einer abermaligen Produktionserhöhung...

Staatsausgaben und Steuereinnahmen verursachen nicht nur einen direkten Impuls, sondern lösen auch eine Multiplikatorwirkung aus. Die Erhöhung des Einkommens führt zu einer Ausweitung des privaten Konsums, somit zu einer weiteren Nachfrageerhöhung und einer abermaligen Produktionserhöhung...

Using a time series framework, the paper studies the interactions of the annual real per capita GDP data of the G7 countries. We find evidence of six common nonstationary processes behind the international output dynamics. In addition, there is evidence for the existence of a common business...

We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture) and the three corresponding sectoral stock market indexes. It is found that data with and without seasonal adjustment give mixed results on the long-run interaction between the...

Factor price equality across countries is an important implication of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of international trade. Although an influential theoretical result, the model has received surprisingly little empirical support. Burgman and Geppert (1993) argue that this might be due to...