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An Assessment of External Price Competitiveness for Mozambique
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This paper develops a small open economy dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with macrofinancial linkages. The model includes a financial accelerator--entrepreneurs are assumed to partially finance investment using domestic and foreign cu...
Monetary Policy Analysis and Forecasting in the World Economy: A Panel Unobserved Components Approach
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This paper develops a framework for analyzing macro-financial linkages in the United States. We estimate the effects of a negative shock to banks' capital/assetratio on lending standards, which in turn affect consumer credit, mortgages, and corpor...
Output and Unemployment Dynamics during the Great Recession: A Panel Unobserved Components Analysis
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Applying commonly used vector autoregression (VAR) techniques, this paper investigates the transmission mechanism of monetary policy on output and prices for Mauritius, using data for 1999-2009. The results show that (i) an unexpected monetary pol...




