We build a tractable two-agent New Keynesian (TANK) model to jointly study four types of policy: conventional monetary policy, quantitative easing (QE), government expenditures, and lump-sum transfers. We find QE, transfers, and government spending can have the same effects on the aggregate...

Highly interconnected global supply chains make countries vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. In this paper, we estimate the macroeconomic effects of global supply chain shocks for the euro area. Our empirical model combines business cycle variables with data from international container...

Governments around the world have gone on a massive fiscal expansion in response to the Covid crisis, increasing government debt to levels not seen in 75 years. How will this debt be repaid? What role do conventional and unconventional monetary policy play? We investigate debt sustainability in...

It is being investigated the relationship between oil windfalls and income inequality using the subnational data of one of the resource-richest and most unequal countries in the world – Russia. While previous literature has produced contradictory findings due to the use of an aggregate measure...

This workshop targets applied and theoretical research on household finance and economic stability. We are particularly interested in contributions that analyze the implications of household leverage for consumption, employment, house prices both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic level. The...

This workshop will focus on issues of both measurement and explanation, building on a number of themes where research is currently active, including (but not limited to): - Extending historical national accounts further back in time for the Nordic countries - Providing historical national...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. Prof. dr. Jakob de Haan (University of Groningen and De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam) Lectures: 1. Governance of the ECB Topics covered: independence of the ECB, governance of the ECB,...

Topics of the 2011 meeting include: 1) Public debt and the process of fiscal rebalancing: - Sustainability considerations of public debt - Debt consolidation in times of recessions 2) Fiscal Policy in a Globalized World - Relation of fiscal debt and external debt - The role of foreign currency...

The Kiel Institute offers the possibility of attending selected courses of its Advanced Studies Program. The objective of this course (Prof. Volker Wieland, Goethe University of Frankfurt) is to provide an introduction to the analysis of monetary and fiscal policy making with practical...

Suitable research questions for submissions include (but are not limited to): - How do the dynamics of labor market variables vary across countries and what explains these differences? - How have labor market dynamics changed over time, e.g. with the recent financial crisis? - How have changes...