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Demand Patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium: Can We Explain the Differences?

Lebrun, Igor; Ruiz, Esther Pérez - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

core. This paper puts recent demand patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium into historical perspective. We find that …

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Germany: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

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Germany: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Germany

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

KEY ISSUES Context: ? Germany fundamentals are sound: balance sheets are generally healthy, unemployment is at a … uncertainty (including about future energy costs), and fast approaching adverse demographic changes. ? Germany could do more to … increase its growth, thus strengthening its role as an engine of euro area recovery. Policy recommendations: ? Germany has the …

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Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany

Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

-run (noncyclical) unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …

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Das Public Kapital: How Much Would Higher German Public Investment Help Germany and the Euro Area?

Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account surplus, but would also raise output over the longer-run as well as generate beneficial regional...

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Shock from Graying; Is the Demographic Shift Weakening Monetary Policy Effectiveness

Imam, Patrick A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Germany to confirm a weakening of monetary policy effectiveness over time with regards to unemployment and inflation. After …

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A Global Projection Model for Euro Area Large Economies

Jakab, Zoltan; Lukyantsau, Pavel; Wang, Shengzu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. This paper creates a special version of GPM that includes the four largest Euro Area (EA) countries. The EA countries are more vulnerable to domestic and external demand shocks because...

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Trade Linkages, Balance Sheets, and Spillovers; The Germany-Central European Supply Chain

Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in a process of deepening economic … integration which has lead to the development of a dynamic supply chain within Europe—the Germany-Central European Supply Chain … relatively small. This is explained by the supply chain nature of trade integration: final demand in Germany is not necessarily …

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Risk Exposures and Financial Spillovers in Tranquil and Crisis Times; Bank-Level Evidence

Poirson, Hélène; Schmittmann, Jochen M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

For a sample of 83 financial institutions during 2003–2011, this paper attempts to answer three questions: first, what is the evolution of banks’ stock price exposure to country-level and global risk factors as approximated by equity indices; second, which bank-specific characteristics...

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German-Central European Supply Chain-Cluster Report; Staff Report, First Background Note, Second Background Note, Third Background Note

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013

linkages between Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic (CE4) have expanded rapidly …

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