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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963016
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210564
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316460
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Global Growth on Life Support? The Contributions of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Since the Global Financial Crisis
Baumann, Ursel - 2019
This paper compares the role of monetary and fiscal policy shocks in advanced and emerging economies. Using a model with a hierarchical structure we capture the variability of GDP response to policy shocks both between and within the groups of advanced and emerging countries. Our results provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890779
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Monetary-Fiscal Interactions and the Euro Area's Malaise
Jarocinski, Marek - 2017
When monetary and fiscal policy are conducted as in the euro area, output, inflation, and government bond default premia are indeterminate according to a standard general equilibrium model with sticky prices extended to include defaultable public debt. With sunspots, the model mimics the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954400
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965549
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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/10013210534
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On Policy Interactions among Nations : When Do Cooperation and Commitment Matter?
Kempf, Hubert - 2014
This paper offers a framework to study commitment and cooperation issues in games with multiple policymakers. To reconcile some puzzles in the recent literature on the nature of policy interactions among nations, we prove that games characterized by different commitment and cooperation schemes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751598
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Financial Policy in an Exuberant World
Walther, Ansgar - 2020
This paper studies optimal financial policy in a world where the financial sector can become excessively optimistic. I decompose the welfare effects of bank capital regulation to demonstrate the effects of exuberance and its interaction with incentive problems in banking. The optimal policy...
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