Oil price shocks, business cycles and monetary policy Ghent University
The aim of the project is to study the optimal monetary policy response to oil price shocks.
Projects
Fiscal Policy, Credit Cycles, and the Macroeconomy. University of Antwerp
The global financial crisis reignited interest in understanding how credit fluctuations affect macroeconomic outcomes. It is now widely recognized that private debt cycles shape macroeconomic fragility and crisis risk. In response to the crisis, many countries adopted countercyclical fiscal policy, which moved government spending, taxation, and deficit financing to the forefront of policy debates. The aim of this project is to understand the ...
Belgian Economy Today: A high-frequency data aggregation and visualisation platform for adequate and timely economic analysis Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In turbulent Covid-19 times, we experience shocks that have an
immediate impact on the financial situation of economic actors.
Tracking these changes with accounting data, monthly surveys or
quarterly macro-economic data leads to numbers that are neither
timely nor accurate: they are not detailed enough and published with
a release lag.
The solution is a digital platform called Belgian Economy Today. The
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immediate impact on the financial situation of economic actors.
Tracking these changes with accounting data, monthly surveys or
quarterly macro-economic data leads to numbers that are neither
timely nor accurate: they are not detailed enough and published with
a release lag.
The solution is a digital platform called Belgian Economy Today. The
...
Belgian Economy Today: A high-frequency data aggregation and visualisation platform for adequate and timely economic analysis Ghent University
In turbulent Covid-19 times, we experience shocks that have an immediate impact on the financial situation of economic actors. Tracking these changes with accounting data, monthly surveys or quarterly macro-economic data leads to numbers that are neither timely nor accurate: they are not detailed enough and published with a release lag.
The solution is a digital platform called Belgian Economy Today. The platform aggregates, distributes ...
The interaction between food prices, macro-economy and monetary policy Ghent University
This project studies the impact of changes in food commodity prices on economic activity, inflation and the interaction with monetary policy.
The interaction between food prices and the macroeconomy: implications for monetary policy Ghent University
In this project, we analyse the interaction between food prices and the macroeconomy. In particular: the transmission mechanism to output and inflation, are the effects different across countries, and have the effects changed over time
The Effect of Global Financial and Trade Shocks on Growth of Sub Saharan Africa. University of Antwerp
This project aims at investigating the impact of global financial and trade shocks on growth and inequality in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA). We assess the ability of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models to explain the impact of shocks on a typical SSA economy, and examine which modifications are required to make the conventional models applicable to SSA. The modified models will be estimated using data from a sample of SSA countries.
Oil and the macro-economy Ghent University
We study the macroeconomic effects of different types of oil market shocks