Gert Peersman

Biographic Data

ID5736391
NAMEGert Peersman
GIVEN NAMESGert
FAMILY NAMEPeersman
SIGNATUREPEERSMAN G
AFFILIATIONSGhent University
ORCID0000-0002-0480-1927
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area

    Gert PeersmanARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2022

    Exogenous shifts in international food commodity prices, which are identified using an SVAR model with global harvest shocks as an external instrument, explain almost 30% of euro-area inflation volatility over the medium term and contributed significantly to the twin puzzle of missing (dis)inflation in the era after the Great Recession. International food price shocks have an impact on food retail prices through the food production chain, but als…

  • The adverse consequences of global harvest and weather disruptions on economic activity

    Open AccessJasmien De Winne, Gert PeersmanARTICLENature Climate Change2021

  • The Impact of Food Prices on Conflict Revisited

    Jasmien De Winne, Gert PeersmanARTICLEJournal of Business and Economic…2021

    Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food prices are exogenous shocks for individual countries or local areas. By isolating strictly exogenous shifts in global food commodity prices, we show that this assumption could seriously distort estimations of the impact on conflict in African regions. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shoc…

  • Heterogeneous Government Spending Multipliers in the Era Surrounding the Great Recession

    Marco Bernardini, Selien De Schryder et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2020

    We use novel quarterly data of U.S. states to examine the dynamics of relative spending multipliers in the decade surrounding the Great Recession. While multipliers were around 1 in expansions, they reached values above 4 when a state was in a recession. Also a high (low) degree of household indebtedness augmented (lowered) a state's multiplier by 0.5 in expansions and 2 in recessions. We further document modest positive spillover effects across …

  • Business Cycle Fluctuations and Excess Sensitivity of Private Consumption

    Open AccessGert Peersman, LORENZO POZZIARTICLEEconomica2008References: 27

    We investigate whether business cycle fluctuations affect the degree of excess sensitivity of private consumption growth to disposable income growth. Using multivariate state space methods and quarterly US data for the period 1965–2000, we find that excess sensitivity is significantly higher during recessions

  • The Industry Effects of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

    Open AccessGert Peersman, Frank SmetsARTICLEThe Economic Journal2005Cited by: 6References: 5

    We first estimate the effects of a euro area-wide monetary policy change on output growth in eleven industries of seven euro area countries over the period 1980-98. On average the negative effect of an interest rate tightening on output is significantly greater in recessions than in booms. There is, however, considerable cross-industry heterogeneity in both the overall policy effects and the degree of asymmetry across the two business cycle phase…