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Macroeconomic effects of carbon transition policies : an assessment based on the ECB's New Area-Wide Model with a disaggregated energy sector
Coenen, Günter; Lozej, Matija; Priftis, Romanos - 2023
that increasing euro area carbon taxes to an interim target level consistent with the transition to a net-zero economy …
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Monetary-fiscal policy interactions when price stability occasionally takes a back seat
Schmidt, Sebastian - 2024
What are the macroeconomic consequences of a government that is limited in its willingness or ability to raise primary surpluses, and a central bank that accommodates its interest-rate policy to the fiscal conditions? I address this question in a dynamic stochastic sticky-price model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484339
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Tracking growth in the euro area subject to a dimensionality problem
Comunale, Mariarosaria; Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - 2021
We investigate which variables have supported growth in the euro area over the last 30 years. This is a challenging task due to dimensionality problems: a large set of potential determinants, limited data, and the prospect that some variables could be non-stationary. We assemble a set of 35...
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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … impact of political shocks on the domestic economy of member states but magnified the transmission of political shocks within …
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Convex supply curves
Boehm, Christoph E.; Pandalai-Nayar, Nitya - 2020
We provide evidence that industries' supply curves are convex. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a model, in which capacity constraints at the plant level generate convex supply curves at the industry level. The industry's capacity utilization rate is a sufficient statistic for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271523
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Expectations-driven liquidity traps : implications for monetary and fiscal policy
Nakata, Taisuke; Schmidt, Sebastian - 2019
We study optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New Keynesian model where occasional declines in agents' confidence can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no straightforward recipe for mitigating the welfare costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037377
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Rising protectionism and global value chains : quantifying the general equilibrium effects
Cappariello, Rita; Gunnella, Vanessa; Franco-Bedoya, … - 2020
Quantifying the effects of trade policy in the age of "global value chains" (GVCs) requires an enhanced analytical framework that takes the observed international input-output relations in due account. However, existing quantitative general equilibrium models generally assume that industry-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012150076
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Household spending and fiscal support during theCOVID-19 pandemic : insights from a new consumer survey
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Kenny, Geoff - 2022
This paper introduces the Consumer Expectations Survey (CES), a new online, high frequency panel survey of euro area consumers' expectations and behaviour. The paper also investigates whether public perceptions about fiscal support measures introduced during the pandemic have influenced spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818792
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The macroeconomic impact of euro area labour market reforms : evidence from a narrative panel VAR
Rünstler, Gerhard - 2021
Using new quarterly narrative evidence, this paper examines the macroeconomic impact of reforms of unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the euro area from a Bayesian narrative panel VAR. The approach complements existing micro-econometric evidence by aligning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012627869
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Designing QE in a fiscally sound monetary union
Bletzinger, Tilman; Thadden, Leopold von - 2018
channel is not active, the model becomes isomorphic to the canonical New Keynesian three-equation economy in which central … lower bound which replicates the equilibrium allocation and the welfare level of a hypothetically unconstrained economy …
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