• Asymmetric effects of monetary policy in regional housing markets 

      Aastveit, Knut Are; Anundsen, André Kallåk (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The responsiveness of house prices to monetary policy shocks depends on the nature of the shock—expansionary versus contractionary—and on local housing supply elasticities. These findings are established using a panel of ...
    • The Choice Channel of Financial Innovation 

      Nenov, Plamen; Iachan, Felipe S.; Simsek, Alp (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Financial innovation in recent decades has expanded portfolio choice. We investigate how greater choice affects investors' savings and asset returns. We establish a choice channel by which greater portfolio choice increases ...
    • The decline of the labor share: new empirical evidence 

      Bergholt, Drago; Furlanetto, Francesco; Maffei Faccioli, Nicolo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We use time series techniques to estimate the importance of four main explanations for the decline of the US labor income share: rising firm markups, falling bargaining power of workers, higher investment-specific technology ...
    • Mind the gap: stylized dynamic facts and structrual models 

      Canova, Fabio; Ferroni, Filippo (Research report, 2022)
      We study what happens to identified shocks and to dynamic responses when the data generating process features q disturbances but q1 < q variables are used in an empirical model. Identified shocks are linear combinations ...
    • Mind the gap: Stylized dynamic facts and structural models 

      Canova, Fabio; Ferroni, Filippo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      We study what happens to identified shocks and to dynamic responses when the data generating process features q disturbances but q 1 < q variables are used in an empirical model. Identified shocks are linear combinations ...
    • MPC Heterogeneity and Household Balance Sheets 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Holm, Martin Blomhoff; Natvik, Gisle James (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      We use sizable lottery prizes in Norwegian administrative panel data to explore how transitory income shocks are spent and saved over time, and how households’ marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) vary with household ...