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Transmission mechanisms in HANK: An application to Chile
Households in emerging economies are subject to significant income risk and have low access to financial markets. Leveraging multiple administrative microdata sources, this paper documents significant heterogeneity in asset holdings, income, and income ...
Benjamín García +3 more
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We study monetary policy transmission across space. Empirically, we show that two channels explain a sizable portion of the variation in the regional effects of identified U.S. monetary policy shocks: local marginal propensities to consume (MPCs), as captured by household wealth, and industry composition, as measured by the local share of non-tradable ...
Bellifemine, M, Couturier, A, Jamilov, R
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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
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Latin America and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
Employment losses in 2020 were larger in Latin America than in any other region. We show that the prevalence of informality, micro-entrepreneurship, and jobs-not-fit for remote work in nonessential sectors accounts for this outcome in both simulations ...
Laura Alfaro +2 more
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Do Internet‐Driven Trade Shocks Moderate the Exchange Rate Pass‐Through to Inflation?
ABSTRACT This study examines the existence of an internet globalisation intensifying impact on the size of the exchange rate pass‐through (ERPT) to inflation, which conditions the response of central banks' policy rates. Expanding on the traditional determinants of ERPT, we incorporate technology‐induced trade shocks linked to internet adoption to ...
Joanna Darwiche, Nicole Ballouz Baker
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Labor Market Institutions, Fiscal Multipliers, and Macroeconomic Volatility
ABSTRACT How do labor market institutions shape the transmission of government spending shocks and macroeconomic volatility? We develop a theoretical model in which labor market institutions affect fiscal transmission through their effect on wage rigidity, job separation, and matching frictions.
Maximilian Boeck +2 more
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Critique of IS-LM: Fiscal Deficits, Loanable Funds, Keynesian Cross and IS-LM [PDF]
This paper intends to discuss some problematic properties IS-LM and loanable funds together have when dealing with fiscal deficits. Many others have focused on its assumptions for criticism of IS-LM, but I will mainly focus on its fundamental modelling nature.
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ABSTRACT This study pursues a dual objective. First, it investigates the unconditional impact of anti‐globalization on structural transformation in Africa. Second, it explores how environmental degradation interacts with anti‐globalization to influence structural transformation. The analysis focuses on 52 African countries over the period 2005–2023. To
Simplice A. Asongu, Ekene ThankGod Emeka
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ABSTRACT Currently, the United States (U.S.) has issues with declining industrial values and supply chain digitalization, which threaten the country's industrialization and Industry 4.0 transformation. The country needs to reverse this trend through effective policy implementation. However, the literature's understanding of effective policies' long‐run
Mohammad Fakhrul Islam +4 more
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