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This paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects of simultaneously implementing fiscal consolidation and competition-friendly reforms in a country of the euro area by simulating a large-scale dynamic general equilibrium model. We find, first, that the joint implementation of reforms has additional...
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Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …
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Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535438
should market liquidity dry up. In a first step, this paper explains why high quality firms introduce a maturity mismatch …
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The paper assesses the effects of increasing competition in the service sector in Italy which, based on cross-country comparisons, is the OECD country with the highest markups in non-manufacturing industries. We propose a two-region (Italy and the rest of the euro area) dynamic general...
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We assess the short- and medium-term macroeconomic effects of competition-friendly reforms in the service sector when the monetary policy rate is stuck at the zero lower bound (ZLB) in a monetary union. We calibrate a large-scale multi-country multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium model to...
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This paper briefly reviews the literature on fiscal multipliers and then presents results for the Italian economy obtained by simulating a dynamic general equilibrium model that allows for the possibility (a) that the zero lower bound may be binding and (b) that the initial public debt-to-GDP...
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