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This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmen-tal policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms’ productivity can benefit from...
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We model economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the four largest euro area countries by applying machine learning techniques to news articles. The unsupervised machine learning algorithm used makes it possible to retrieve the individual components of overall EPU endogenously for a wide range of...
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This paper investigates the contribution of private and public channels for consumption risk sharing in the EMU over … estimating how risk sharing has evolved since the start of the EMU, and in particular during the recent crisis. Our results …
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We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …
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This paper explores how changes in macroeconomic uncertainty have affected the decision to participate in the European Central Bank's Survey of Professional Forecasters. Two different approaches are employed in order to address this question. First, a time-series analysis explores if changes in...
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The analysis of the conditions under which, and extent to which climate-adjusted financial risk assessment affects … limiting firms’ capacity to invest in low-carbon activities that could decrease their exposure to transition risk and help them …
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. For this purpose, it first extends the estimation of risk-neutral probability density functions up to tick frequency. In …
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This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates their linkages in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main...
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This paper sheds light on the impact of global macroeconomic uncertainty on the euro area economy. We build on the methodology proposed by Jurado et al. (2015) and estimate global as well as country-specific measures of economic uncertainty for fifteen key euro area trade partners and the euro...
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We examine the existence of physical and transition climate risk premia in euro areaequity markets. To do so, we … develop two novel physical and transition risk indicators, basedon text analysis, which are then used to gauge the presence of … climate risk premia. Resultssuggest that climate risk premia for both, transition and physical climate risk, have …
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