Active Driver or Passive Victim - On the Role of International Monetary Policy Transmission
Annika Camehl, Gregor von Schweinitz
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 3,
2023
Abstract
We provide new insights into determinants of international interest rates spillovers across seven advanced economies. To disentangle and quantify their respective importance, we identify country-specific structural monetary policy, demand, and supply equations in a Bayesian structural panel vector autoregressive model. We formulate prior beliefs on magnitudes and signs of contemporaneous structural coefficients (i.e., (semi-)elasticities), based on a standard theoretical multi-country open economy model from the literature. Our findings show that interest rate spillovers occur via an aggregated demand channel. Unexpected monetary tightening causes modest declines in most foreign interest rates, while demand and supply shocks result in increased foreign interest rates. Our results support that central banks respond to changes in the domestic macroeconomic environment induced by domestic or foreign shocks rather than directly reacting to foreign shocks. Spillovers are quantitatively stronger for shocks originating in economically large areas with strong trade linkages.
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Do Larger Firms Have Higher Markups?
Matthias Mertens, Bernardo Mottironi
IWH-CompNet Discussion Papers,
Nr. 1,
2023
Abstract
Several models posit a positive cross-sectional correlation between markups and firm size, which, among others, characterizes misallocation, factor shares, and gains from trade. Yet, taking labor market power into account in markup estimation, we show that larger firms have lower markups. This correlation turns positive only after conditioning on wage markdowns, suggesting interactions between product and labor market power. Our findings are robust to common criticism (e.g., price bias) and hold across 19 European countries. We discuss the resulting implications and highlight studying input and output market power within an integrated framework as an important next step for future research.
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Do Larger Firms Have Higher Markups?
Matthias Mertens, Bernardo Mottironi
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 1,
2023
Abstract
Several models posit a positive cross-sectional correlation between markups and firm size, which, among others, characterizes misallocation, factor shares, and gains from trade. Yet, taking labor market power into account in markup estimation, we show that larger firms have lower markups. This correlation turns positive only after conditioning on wage markdowns, suggesting interactions between product and labor market power. Our findings are robust to common criticism (e.g., price bias) and hold across 19 European countries. We discuss the resulting implications and highlight studying input and output market power within an integrated framework as an important next step for future research.
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Dilemma and Global Financial Cycle: Evidence from Capital Account Liberalisation Episodes
Xiang Li
IWH Discussion Papers,
Nr. 13,
2021
Abstract
By focusing on the episodes of substantial capital account liberalisation and adopting a new methodology, this paper provides new evidence on the dilemma and global financial cycle theory. I first identify the capital account liberalisation episodes for 95 countries from 1970 to 2016, and then employ an augmented inverse propensity score weighted (AIPW) estimator to calculate the average treatment effect (ATE) of opening capital account on the interest rate comovements with the core country. Results show that opening capital account causes a country to lose its monetary policy independence, and a floating exchange rate regime cannot shield this effect. Moreover, the impact is stronger when liberalising outward and banking flows.
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14.10.2020 • 21/2020
Gemeinschaftsdiagnose Herbst 2020: Erholung verliert an Fahrt – Wirtschaft und Politik weiter im Zeichen der Pandemie
Die Corona-Krise hinterlässt deutliche Spuren in der deutschen Wirtschaft und trifft diese härter als noch im Frühjahr angenommen. In ihrem Herbstgutachten revidieren die führenden Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute ihre Prognose für dieses und nächstes Jahr um jeweils gut einen Prozentpunkt nach unten. Sie erwarten nun für 2020 einen Rückgang des Bruttoinlandsproduktes um 5,4% (bislang -4,2%) und für 2021 einen Zuwachs um 4,7% (5,8%). 2022 dürfte die Wirtschaftsleistung dann um 2,7% zulegen.
Oliver Holtemöller
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