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Browsing ECO Articles by Author "RAVN, Morten O."
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Title:What Drives Spreads in the Euro Area Government Bond Market?
Author(s):MANGANELLI, Simone; WOLSWIJK, Guido; RAVN, Morten O.; THESMAR, DavidDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Spreads between euro area government bond yields are related to short-term interest rates, which are in turn related to market liquidity, to cyclical conditions, and to investors' incentives to take risk. In theory, lower ...
Title:Macroeconomics of Subsistence Points
Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; SCHMITT-GROHE, Stephanie; URIBE, MartinDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper explores the macroeconomic consequences of preferences displaying a subsistence point. It departs from the existing related literature by assuming that subsistence points are specific to each variety of goods ...
Title:Labor Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the United States
Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; SIMONELLI, SaverioDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We use a 12-dimensional VAR to examine the aggregate effects of two structural technology shocks and two policy shocks. For each shock, we examine the dynamic effects on the labor market, the importance of the shock for ...
Title:Deep habits
Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; SCHMITT-GROHE, Stephanie; URIBE, MartinDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper generalizes the standard habit-formation model to an environment in which agents form habits over individual varieties of goods as opposed to over a composite consumption good. We refer to this preference ...
Title:Markov Switching Causality and the Money-Output Relationship
Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; PSARADAKIS, Zacharias; SOLA, MartinDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The causal link between monetary variables and output is one of the most studied issues in macroeconomics. One puzzle from this literature is that the results of causality tests appear to be sensitive with respect to the ...
Title:International Consumption Risk Sharing
Author(s):CANOVA, Fabio; RAVN, Morten O.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper formally examines the implications of international consumption risk sharing for a panel of industrialized countries. We theoretically derive the international consumption insurance proposition in a simple setup ...
Title:Growth, Human-Capital Spillovers and International-Policy Coordination
Author(s):BLACKBURN, Keith; RAVN, Morten O.Date:1993Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper is concerned with public policy and economic development in a world of interdependent economies. Its objective is to show how the international coordination of economic policy is a means of promoting growth across ...