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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks : New Evidence Using Natural Disaster Relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho - 2012
We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two alternative approaches: the narrative approach and Structural Vector-Autoregressive model (SVAR). We propose a new methodology for identifying exogenous and unexpected fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100013
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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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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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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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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117356
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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...
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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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Estimating General Equilibrium Trade Policy Effects : GE PPML
Anderson, James E. - 2015
We develop a simple estimation procedure for general equilibrium (GE) comparative static analysis of gravity models. Non-linear solvers of estimated models are replaced by (constrained) regressions. Applied economists can more readily generate results, with more intuition about the working of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010483
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Fiscal Developments and Financial Stress : A Threshold VAR Analysis
Afonso, António - 2011
We use a threshold VAR analysis to study whether the effects of fiscal policy on economic activity differ depending on financial market conditions. In particular, we investigate the possibility of a non-linear propagation of fiscal developments according to different financial market stress...
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