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The Bitcoin Premium: A Persistent Puzzle 比特币溢价：持久之谜
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2023-0107
Matthew S. Wilson
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Handle with Care: Regulatory Easing in Times of COVID-19 小心处理:COVID-19时期的监管放松
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-10-15 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0270
Fabián Valencia,Richard Varghese,Weijia Yao,Juan F. Yépez
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Quarantine, Contact Tracing, and Testing: Implications of an Augmented SEIR Model 隔离、接触者追踪和测试:增强SEIR模型的含义
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0168
Andreas Hornstein
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Cash-Management in Times of Covid-19 Covid-19时期的现金管理
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-06-23 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0269
Fernando Alvarez,David Argente
{"title":"Cash-Management in Times of Covid-19","authors":"Fernando Alvarez,David Argente","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0269","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The incidence of COVID-19 has systematically decreased households’ use of cash as means of payment as well as the average size and frequency of cash withdrawals. We argue that the structure of Baumol–Tobin type inventory theoretical models and their extensions can be used to separate the confounding factors, such as the desired level of consumption and the choice of the fraction of consumption paid in cash, from the cash management behavior, i.e. the size and frequency of cash withdrawals. Using this insight we argue that the observed cash management is consistent with COVID-19 increasing the fixed cost of withdrawing cash. We use detailed data on ATM cash disbursements in Argentina, Chile, and the US to estimate how much the pandemic has changed the transaction cost of using cash. This estimation shows that if the intensity of the virus doubles in a county, cash transaction cost increases by approximately 2%. The results from Argentina, Chile, and the US are remarkably similar and robust to several forms of measurement error and endogeneity.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"4 3","pages":"89-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138523318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Supply-side Effects of Pandemic Mortality: Insights from an Overlapping-generations Model 流行病死亡率的供给侧效应:来自重叠代模型的见解
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0196
Etienne Gagnon,Benjamin K. Johannsen,David López-Salido
{"title":"Supply-side Effects of Pandemic Mortality: Insights from an Overlapping-generations Model","authors":"Etienne Gagnon,Benjamin K. Johannsen,David López-Salido","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0196","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We use an overlapping-generations model to explore the implications of mortality during pandemics for the economy’s productive capacity. Under current epidemiological projections for the progression of COVID-19, our model suggests that mortality will have, in itself, only small effects on output and factor prices because projected mortality is small in proportion to the population and skewed toward individuals who are retired from the labor force. That said, we show that if the spread of COVID-19 is not contained, or if the ongoing pandemic were to follow a mortality pattern similar to the 1918–1920 Great Influenza pandemic, then the effects on the productive capacity would be economically significant and persist for decades.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"64 1","pages":"1-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138522366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Uncertainty, Financial Markets, and Monetary Policy over the Last Century 上个世纪的不确定性、金融市场和货币政策
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-05-18 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0013
Sangyup Choi,Chansik Yoon
{"title":"Uncertainty, Financial Markets, and Monetary Policy over the Last Century","authors":"Sangyup Choi,Chansik Yoon","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What has been the effect of uncertainty shocks in the U.S. economy over the last century? What are the roles of the financial channel and monetary policy channel in propagating uncertainty shocks? Our empirical strategies enable us to distinguish between the effects of uncertainty shocks on key macroeconomic and financial variables transmitted through each channel. A hundred years of data further allow us to answer these questions from a novel historical perspective. This paper finds robust evidence that financial conditions captured by both borrowing costs and the availability of credit have played a crucial role in propagating uncertainty shocks over the last century. However, heightened uncertainty does not necessarily amplify the adverse effect of financial shocks, suggesting an asymmetric interaction between uncertainty and financial shocks. Interestingly, the monetary policy stance seems to play only a minor role in propagating uncertainty shocks, which is in sharp contrast to the recent claim that binding zero-lower-bound amplifies the negative effect of uncertainty shocks. We argue that the contribution of constrained monetary policy to amplifying uncertainty shocks is largely masked by the joint concurrence of binding zero-lower-bound and tightened financial conditions.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138522368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Home Production and Leisure during the COVID-19 Recession COVID-19经济衰退期间的家庭生产和休闲
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-04-26 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0271
Oksana Leukhina,Zhixiu Yu
{"title":"Home Production and Leisure during the COVID-19 Recession","authors":"Oksana Leukhina,Zhixiu Yu","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0271","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Between the months of February and April of 2020, average weekly market hours in the U.S. dropped by 6.25, meanwhile 36% of workers reported switching to remote work arrangements. In this paper, we examine implications of these changes for the time allocation of different households, and on aggregate. We estimate that home production activity increased by 2.65 h a week, or 42.4% of lost market hours, due to the drop in market work and rise in remote work. The monthly value of home production increased by $39.65 billion – that is 13.55% of the concurrent $292.61 billion drop in monthly GDP. Although market hours declined the most for single, less educated individuals, the lost market hours were absorbed into home production the most by married individuals with children. Adding on the impact of school closures, our estimate of weekly home production hours increases by as much as 4.92 h. The increase in the value of monthly home production between February and April updates to $73.57 billion. We also report the estimated impact of labor markets and telecommuting on home production for each month in 2020.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"15 1","pages":"269-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138522369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Protecting Lives and Livelihoods with Early and Tight Lockdowns 通过早期和严格的封锁保护生命和生计
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0266
Francesca Caselli,Francesco Grigoli,Damiano Sandri
{"title":"Protecting Lives and Livelihoods with Early and Tight Lockdowns","authors":"Francesca Caselli,Francesco Grigoli,Damiano Sandri","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0266","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using high-frequency proxies for economic activity over a large sample of countries, we show that the economic crisis during the first seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic was only partly due to government lockdowns. Economic activity also contracted severely because of voluntary social distancing in response to higher infections. Furthermore, we show that lockdowns substantially reduced COVID-19 cases, especially if they were introduced early in a country’s epidemic. This implies that, despite involving short-term economic costs, lockdowns may pave the way to a faster recovery by containing the spread of the virus and reducing voluntary social distancing. Finally, we document that lockdowns entail decreasing marginal economic costs but increasing marginal benefits in reducing infections. This suggests that tight short-lived lockdowns are preferable to mild prolonged measures.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"22 1","pages":"241-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138522365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Neoclassical Growth Model and the Labor Share Decline 新古典增长模型与劳动收入占比下降
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2021-04-12 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0254
Zachary L. Mahone,Joaquín Naval,Pau S. Pujolas
{"title":"The Neoclassical Growth Model and the Labor Share Decline","authors":"Zachary L. Mahone,Joaquín Naval,Pau S. Pujolas","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0254","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The labor share may be declining in the data, but it is often assumed constant in neoclassical growth models (NGM). We assess the quantitative importance of this discrepancy by comparing alternative calibration approaches featuring constant and declining labor shares. We find little difference in model performance. Our results derive from strong general equilibrium effects: while a declining labor share mechanically lowers wage growth, the investment response pushes wages back up. Hence, different models deliver nearly identical paths of macro aggregates. Numerous robustness checks (including a CES production function, different time periods, and calculations of the labor share) reinforce the similarity of performance across model specifications. We conclude that the NGM with a constant labor share is still an appropriate choice to study many standard macro aggregates.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"30 1","pages":"607-628"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138522367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Trend Growth and Robust Monetary Policy 趋势增长和稳健的货币政策
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics Pub Date : 2020-11-23 DOI: 10.1515/bejm-2020-0133
Kohei Hasui
{"title":"Trend Growth and Robust Monetary Policy","authors":"Kohei Hasui","doi":"10.1515/bejm-2020-0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/bejm-2020-0133","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recent monetary policy studies have shown that the trend productivity growth has non-trivial implications for monetary policy. This paper investigates how trend growth alters the effect of model uncertainty on macroeconomic fluctuations by introducing a robust control problem. We show that an increase in trend growth reduces the effect of the central bank’s model uncertainty and, hence, mitigates the large macroeconomic fluctuations. Moreover, the increase in trend growth contributes to bringing the economy into determinacy regions even if larger model uncertainty exists. These results indicate that trend growth contributes to stabilizing the economy in terms of both variance and determinacy when model uncertainty exists.","PeriodicalId":501401,"journal":{"name":"The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics","volume":"168 1","pages":"449-472"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138522371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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