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An economic shock, also known as a macroeconomic shock, is any unexpected event that has a large-scale, unexpected impact on the economy. Many, but not all, economists also say that a shock has to be ...

Housing demand shocks in standard macroeconomic models are a primary source of house price fluctuations, but those models have difficulties in generating the observed large volatility of house prices ...

SYDNEY, Oct 31 (Reuters) - U.S. tariffs have acted as a negative demand shock for a small open economy like New Zealand's, Prasanna Gai, a member on the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's rate setting ...