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Do tax cuts increase consumption? : an experimental test of Ricardian Equivalence
Meissner, Thomas; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2014
This paper tests whether the Ricardian Equivalence proposition holds in a life cycle consumption laboratory experiment … not hold in general. Our results suggest that taxation has a significant and strong impact on consumption choice. Over the … life cycle, a tax relief increases consumption on average by about 22% of the tax rebate. A tax increase causes consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384031
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Consumption-led expansions are toxic for future output growth
Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022
is quite striking: consumption-led growth - either in terms of private or public or total consumption - leads to slower … of the past growth period (lag window). It is only that the more often the past is characterized by consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440345
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Monetary policy and the current account : theory and evidence
Hjortsoe, Ida; Weale, Martin; Wieladek, Tomasz - 2016
Does the current account improve or deteriorate following a monetary policy expansion? We examine this issue theoretically and empirically. We show that a standard open economy DSGE model predicts that the current account response to a monetary policy shock depends on the degree of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436615
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Monetary policy and unemployment in open economies
Engler, Philipp - 2011
After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009405109
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Transmission of global financial shocks to EMU member states : the role of monetary policy and national factors
Gelman, Maria; Jochem, Axel; Reitz, Stefan - 2016
The paper analyses the transmission of global financial shocks to individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), in which monetary policy is delegated to the ECB and financial markets are fully integrated. Using a panel VAR model, we show that the asymmetric effects of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495568
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Monetary policy, housing, and collateral constraints
Franz, Thorsten - 2019
), translate into larger effects of consumption. This result is more pronounced for contractionary shocks, in line with …
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The household effects of government spending
Giavazzi, Francesco; McMahon, Michael - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553628
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Monetary-fiscal policy interaction and fiscal inflation : a tale of three countries
Kliem, Martin; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Sarferaz, Samad - 2015
We study the impact of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy on the low-frequency relationship between the fiscal stance and inflation using crosscountry data from 1965 to 1999. In a first step, we contrast the monetary-fiscal narrative for Germany, the U.S. and Italy with evidence...
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Effects of monetary and fiscal policy interactions on regional employment : evidence from Japan
Miyazaki, Tomomi; Kondoh, Haruo - 2022
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Capital flows in the euro area and TARGET2 balances
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2019
We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively assess how the uneven recourse of national banking systems in the euro area to the ECB's unconventional refinancing operations that led to the accumulation of large TARGET2 balances, has contributed to the propagation of different...
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