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Analyzing structural reforms using a behavioral macroeconomic model

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017

We use a behavioral macroeconomic model to analyze how structural reforms affect the economy in the short and in the … second one raises potential output in the economy. We find that structural reforms that increase the flexibility of wages and … rigid economy. Finally, we analyze how structural reforms change the tradeoffs between output and inflation variability. Our …

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Assessing monetary policy in Norway

Andreassen, Harald Magnus; De Grauwe, Paul; Solheim, Haakon - 2001

We evaluate the policy of flexible inflation targeting implemented by the Norges Bank since March 2001. We discuss the reasons why the real interest rates are significantly higher in Norway than in the rest of Europe. Finally we propose some institutional changes that can improve the policy...

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Is monetary policy in the eurozone less effective than in the US?

De Grauwe, Paul (contributor); Costa, Cláudia (contributor) - 2005

There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the ECB's monetary policies. In order to test this "ECB-handicap" hypothesis, we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries....

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The effects of monetary policy : a meta-analysis : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance, February 2004

De Grauwe, Paul; Costa, Cláudia - 2004

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We use a sample of published papers on the effects of monetary policies in different countries. There is a large variation in the estimated effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We...

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The fragility of two monetary regimes : the European monetary system and the Eurozone

Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2013

We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone. We test the hypothesis that in the EMS the fragility arose from the absence of a credible lender of last resort in the foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was...

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Animal spirits and the international transmission of business cycles : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money & International Finance, February 2016

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2016

replicated in standard open economy macroeconomic models without assuming that the exogenous shocks hitting these countries are …

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Fighting inflation more effectively without transferring central banks' profits to banks

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2023

The major central banks now operate in a regime of abundance of bank reserves. As a result, they can only raise the money market rate by increasing the rate of remuneration of bank reserves. This, in turn, leads to large transfers of the central banks' profits (and more) to commercial banks that...

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Monetary policy and radical uncertainty

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2024

In a world of radical uncertainty the frequency distributions of economic variables deviate from the normal distribution and typically exhibit fat tails. We show that this feature is obtained in simple models where agents have cognitive limitations and fail to understand the underlying model....

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Animal spirits and monetary policy

De Grauwe, Paul (contributor) - 2008

We develop a behavioral macroeconomic model in which agents use simple but biased rules to forecast future output and inflation. This model generates endogenous waves of optimism and pessimism ("Animal Spiritsʺ) that are generated by the correlation of biased beliefs. We contrast the dynamics...

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Monetary policy in EMU when the transmission is asymmetric and uncertain

De Grauwe, Paul; Sénégas, Marc-Alexandre - 2003

In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data.We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...

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