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Inter-Temporal Savings, Current Account Dynamics and Asymmetric Shocks in a Heterogeneous European Monetary Union
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...
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Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and Their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas - 2019
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house … portfolios, observed in the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) for these countries. We then show that the … heterogeneity in household finances implies that responses of consumption to changes in the real interest rate and in house prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898763
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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks : New Evidence Using Natural Disaster Relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho - 2012
GDP, private consumption, real wage and investment are all positive, which is in accord with the New Keynesian model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100013
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Fiscal Transfers in a Monetary Union with Exit Option
Hefeker, Carsten - 2015
It is widely debated whether a monetary union has to be accompanied by a fiscal transfer scheme to accommodate asymmetric shocks. We build a model of a monetary union with a central bank and two heterogeneous countries that are linked by a fiscal transfer scheme with repercussions on monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025966
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Taxation, Corruption and the Exchange Rate Regime
Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2009
and improve the fiscal system. A monetary union, however, has ambiguous effects. I find that there is convergence between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013051
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Monetary Policy and Redistribution: What can or cannot be Neutralized with Mirrleesian Taxes
Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2012
This paper develops an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous agents in terms of earning ability and cash-in-advance constraint. It shows that tax policy cannot fully replicate or neutralize the redistributive implications of monetary policy. While who gets the extra money becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645639
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Transatlantic Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction
Aarle, Bas van; Garretsen, Harry; Huart, Florence - CESifo - 2003
This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765866
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Policy Mix and Debt Sustainability: Evidence from Fiscal Policy Rules
Claeys, Peter - CESifo - 2005
This paper characterises rules-based fiscal policy setting. Basically, we translate a standard monetary policy rule into a simple fiscal policy rule. We then infer on fiscal policymakers' reaction coefficients by testing the rule with GMM. Interaction is also tested directly by the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406435
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Transportation Costs and the Great Divergence
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014
enhance convergence of the growth rates of trading economies. In contrast, reductions in transportation costs of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054015
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Diversification, Dutch Disease, and Economic Growth : Options for Uganda
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2014
Natural resource discoveries, even when fairly modest in terms of the revenues they are expected to generate, can have significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no different from other oil-rich countries. In five...
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