Price, Wage and Employment Response to Shocks: Evidence from the WDN Survey

35 Pages Posted: 1 Mar 2010

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Giuseppe Bertola

University of Turin - Department of Economics

Aurelijus Dabusinskas

Bank of Estonia

Marco Hoeberichts

De Nederlandsche Bank - Research Department

Mario Izquierdo

Banco de España

Claudia Kwapil

Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Jeremi Montornes

Banque de France

Daniel Radowski

Deutsche Bundesbank

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Date Written: February 2010

Abstract

This paper builds a new dataset with detailed information on the universe of foreign government bonds issued in New York in the 1920s and uses these data to describe the behavior of the financial intermediaries which operated in the New York market during the period leading to the interwar debt crisis. The paper starts by showing that concerns over reputation played an important role in intermediaries' underwriting choices. Next, the paper checks whether banks managed to charge abnormal underwriting fees on bonds that would eventually default and finds no evidence of such practice (banksterism). The paper concludes by discussing some parallels between the experience of the 1920s and the current debate on the originate and distribute model.

Keywords: European Union, Labour-market institutions, Survey data, Wage bargaining

JEL Classification: J31, J38, P50

Suggested Citation

Bertola, Giuseppe and Dabusinskas, Aurelijus and Hoeberichts, Marco M. and Izquierdo, Mario and Kwapil, Claudia and Montornes, Jeremi and Radowski, Daniel, Price, Wage and Employment Response to Shocks: Evidence from the WDN Survey (February 2010). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7706, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1559662

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