Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...

Since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic, matching in the Danish labour market seems to have been dampened: Fewer workers are being hired than the number of unemployed job seekers and open vacancies would lead to believe. Furthermore, employers report a stark increase in failed recruiting...

We employ a nonlinear VAR framework and a state-of-the-art identification strategy to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during and in the aftermath of the great recession. We replicate this evidence with an estimated DSGE framework featuring a concept...

We propose a theoretical framework to reconcile episodes of V-shaped and L-shaped recovery, encompassing the behaviour of the U.S. economy before and after the Great Recession. In a DSGE model with endogenous growth, negative demand shocks destroy productive capacity, moving GDP to a lower...

This study examines the medium-term effects of the Great Recession on school finances in New Jersey using detailed school district panel data and an interrupted time series analysis. The authors find that the recession led to sharp cuts in school funding and expenditure, in spite of the federal...

The authors study the impact that the liquidity crunch in 2008-2009 had on the U.S. economy?s growth trend. To this end, the authors propose a model featuring endogenous productivity a la Romer and a liquidity friction a la Kiyotaki-Moore. A key finding in the authors? study is that liquidity...

We provide new evidence that a disruption in credit supply played a quantitatively significant role in the unprecedented contraction of employment during the Great Depression. To analyze the role of financing frictions in firms' employment decisions, we use a novel, hand-collected dataset of...

The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...

Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...

Noneconomic activities involve social work and social protection that besides health care take special care of individuals as members of the society. Rehabilitation and recreation funded by the Pension and Disability Fund and the Republic Fund for Health Insurance fall within such activities....

The life-cycle labor supply of women born at the turn of the 20th century diverged sharply from previous cohorts. Although they had similar participation rates in early adulthood, younger cohorts were significantly more likely to work at middle age. This paper documents a link between these...

Unter der Annahme, dass die umfangreichen Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung von Covid-19 ab Mai gelockert werden, ist mit einem Rückgang des deutschen Bruttoinlandsprodukts (BIP) um 4 % in diesem Jahr zu rechnen. Das BIP dürfte insbesondere im zweiten Quartal 2020 stark einbrechen, aber auch im...

Im folgenden Beitrag wird ein Teil der aktuellen Konjunkturstudien zur Corona-Krise kurz aufgelistet und kommentiert. Der Fokus richtet sich zum einen auf die Weltwirtschaft und zum anderen auf die deutsche Wirtschaft. Die Sichtung der Studien wurde am 23. März 2020 abgeschlossen.

In dem folgenden Beitrag wird - wie bereits in der Vorwoche (Bardt/Grömling/Kolev, 2020) - ein ausgewählter Teil der (größtenteils) in der 13. Kalenderwoche veröffentlichten Konjunkturstudien zur Corona-Krise aufgeführt. Der Fokus richtet sich auf die Weltwirtschaft und die deutsche...

Wie in den vergangenen beiden Wochen (siehe Bardt/Grömling/Kolev, 2020a und 2020b) liefert das Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft wieder eine kurze Übersicht über einen Teil der vorwiegend in der vorhergehenden Woche veröffentlichten Konjunkturnachrichten. In gewohnter Weise richtet sich der...

How much capital should financial intermediaries hold? We propose a general equilibrium model with a financial sector that makes risky long-term loans to firms, funded by deposits from savers. Government guarantees create a role for bank capital regulation. The model captures the sharp and...

Introduction -- "The Heart of Contemporary Capitalism": The Partners and their Bank -- J.P. Morgan & Co. at home and abroad in the 1920s -- The Young Plan, the Bank for International Settlements and the Wall Street Crash, 1929-30 -- "The End of the World"? The 1931 Crises -- "Witchcraft": J.P....

"The Great Depression was a defining era that shaped America--and the world. Readers will turn back the clock to history's turning points during that era and will take a closer look at the major challenges and hurdles the United States faced. Readers will review how this period influenced the...

"In far too many cases, recommendations of forensic reports on previous pandemics were ignored. Substantial weaknesses in the preparation by public health authorities and governments increased the health and economic costs of the COVID-19 pandemic relative to what they would have been if...

"In Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the economic breakdown that has characterised the last two decades of capitalist development - from the Lehman collapse to the Covid-19 pandemic - with a particular focus on the impact...