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Risk Shocks and Divergence between the Euro Area and the US in the Aftermath of the Great Recession

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  • Thomas Brand
  • Fabien Tripier

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Highly synchronized during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, the Euro area and the US have diverged in the period that followed. To explain this divergence, we provide a structural interpretation of these episodes through the estimation for both economies of a business cycle model with financial frictions and risk shocks, measured as the volatility of idiosyncratic uncertainty in the financial sector. Our results show that risk shocks have stimulated US growth in the aftermath of the Great Recession and have been the main driver of the double-dip recession in the Euro area. They play a positive role in the Euro area only after 2015. Risk shocks therefore seem well suited to account for the consequences of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and the subsequent positive effects of unconventional monetary policies, notably the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme (APP).

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  • Thomas Brand & Fabien Tripier, 2021. "Risk Shocks and Divergence between the Euro Area and the US in the Aftermath of the Great Recession," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 143, pages 137-163.
    • Handle: RePEc:adr:anecst:y:2021:i:143:p:137-163
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.15609/annaeconstat2009.143.0137
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    1. Risk shocks and divergence between the Euro area and the US in the aftermath of the Great Recession
      by Christian Zimmermann in NEP-DGE blog on 2021-03-22 18:49:17

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    1. Robert Brooks & Brandon N. Cline & Pavel Teterin & Yu You, 2022. "The information in global interest rate futures contracts," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 42(6), pages 1135-1166, June.

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    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • E4 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

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