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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005530784
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What are the spill-overs from fiscal shocks in Europe? An empirical analysis
Giuliodori, Massimo; Beetsma, Roel - European Central Bank - 2004
We use a Vector Auto Regression (VAR) analysis to explore the (spill-over) effects of fiscal policy shocks in Europe. To enhance comparability with the existing literature, we first analyse the effects of these shocks at the national level. Here, we employ identification based on Choleski...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005530834
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Government bond risk premia and the cyclicality of fiscal policy
Christoffel, Kai; Jaccard, Ivan; Kilponen, Juha - European Central Bank - 2011
We introduce a specification of habit formation featuring non-separability between consumption and leisure into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model. The model can be estimated with standard Bayesian techniques and the bond pricing implications are evaluated using higher-order...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399786
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Inflation forecasting in the new EU Member States
Arratibel, Olga; Kamps, Christophe; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - European Central Bank - 2009
To the best of our knowledge, our paper is the first systematic study of the predictive power of monetary aggregates for future inflation for the cross section of New EU Member States. This paper provides stylized facts on monetary versus non-monetary (economic and fiscal) determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002771
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ECB vs Council vs Commission: Monetary and fiscal policy interactions in the EMU when cyclical conditions are uncertain
Balboni, Fabio; Buti, Marco; Larch, Martin - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2007
This paper examines economic policy interactions in the Economic and Monetary Union when the assessment of cyclical conditions in real time is surrounded by uncertainty. On the basis of a simple stylised model it shows that different views about the output gap on the side of the policy players -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459157
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Budgeting Procedures and Fiscal Performance in the European Communities.
Von Hagen, J. - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486880
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Fiscal policy in a monetary economy with capital and finite lifetime
Annicchiarico, Barbara; Giammarioli, Nicola; … - European Central Bank - 2006
This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, capital accumulation and finite lifetimes. The framework exhibits intergenerational wealth effects and is intended to investigate the macroeconomic implications of fiscal policy, which is specified by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344905
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Fiscal convergence before entering the EMU
Onorante, Luca - European Central Bank - 2006
The monetary integration of the acceding countries will proceed in several distinct steps, starting with membership in the European Union (EU), followed by participation in the so-called Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) II and ultimately entry into the euro area. This paper addresses the question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344947
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What accounts for the changes in U.S. fiscal policy transmission?
Bilbiie, Florin O.; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J. - European Central Bank - 2006
Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series for 1957-1979 and 1983-2004, we find government spending shocks to have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample. We try to account for this observation within a DSGE model featuring price rigidities and limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344962
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EMU: The First Two Years.
Commission, European - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2001
The Maastricht Treaty provided the blueprint for achieving Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) as a further stage in the process of political and economic integration of the European Union (EU). In order to qualify to participate in EMU, Member States were required to achieve a high degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671360