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The Impact of Constrained Monetary Policy on the Fiscal Multipliers on Output and Inflation
Bletzinger, Tilman - 2017
This paper uses two established DSGE models (QUEST III and Smets-Wouters) to assess the impact of fiscal spending cuts on output and, in particular, also on inflation in the euro area under alternative settings for monetary policy. We compare four different settings of constrained monetary...
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The Euro Area Periphery Sovereigns' Fiscal Positions and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Hülsewig, Oliver - 2020
sign restrictions. Our results suggest that the sovereigns' fiscal positions improve in response to the economy expansion …
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Effects of State-Dependent Forward Guidance, Large-Scale Asset Purchases and Fiscal Stimulus in a Low-Interest-Rate Environment
Coenen, Günter - 2020
the euro area economy and examine, using the ECB's New Area-Wide Model, the consequences of the lower bound both for the …
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The Impact of Containment Measures and Monetary and Fiscal Responses on US Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...
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Monetary and Fiscal Complementarity in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chadha, Jagjit; Corrado, Luisa; Meaning, Jack; Schuler, … - 2021
government bonds and this offsets the impact of shutdowns and lockdowns in the real economy. We show that these actions reduced … that if the Federal Reserve had not intervened to such a degree, the economy may have experienced a significantly deeper …
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The Political Economy Under Monetary Union : Has the Euro Made a Difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2021
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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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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The Distributional Impact of Labour Market Reforms : A Model-Based Assessment
Roeger, Werner - 2019
This paper studies the effects of labour market reforms on the functional distribution of income in a DSGE model (Roeger et al., 2008) with skill differentiation, in which households supply three types of labour: low-, medium- and high-skilled. The households receive income from labour, tangible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859991
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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...
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Firm Responses to Employment Subsidies : A Regression Discontinuity Approach to the 2012 Spanish Labour Market Reform
Gamberoni, Elisa - 2017
This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted in the context of the 2012 Spanish labour market reform. Exploiting the arbitrary firm size threshold using regression discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2...
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