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Economy of Vietnam
McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001
economy was thoroughly undermined. The collapse of trading relations with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA … the urban household services economy, which offset the increase in the numbers of unemployed. The shift to markets was … Western markets without difficulty. During the 1990s the economy of Viet Nam underwent a transformation. Structural changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118775
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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005
Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076625
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Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theorectical Underpinnings and Challenges
Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003
Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theoretical Underpinnings and Challenges Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, The Levy Economics Institute and Leeds University Abstract This paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the type of economic analysis and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076715
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The Fed’s Consistent Monetary Policy: A Long Term Perspective
Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2004
discusses the Fed's actual track record and the state of the US economy in which the Fed operated and how the Fed's policies … the author at the Second International Conference on Forecasting the Singapore Economy and Annual Review of Central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076785
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Monetary Policy Strategies of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S.
Wray, L. Randall; Sardoni, C. - EconWPA - 2005
In the debate on monetary policy strategies on both sides of the Atlantic, it is now almost a commonplace to contrast the Fed and the ECB by pointing out the former’s flexibility and capacity to adjust rigidity, and the latter’s extreme caution, and obsession with low inflation. In looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076846
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Fiscal activism and the zero nominal interest rate bound
Schmidt, Sebastian - European Central Bank - 2014
I show that the zero nominal interest rate bound may render it desirable for society to appoint a fiscally activist policy-maker who cares less about the stabilisation of government spending relative to inflation and output gap stabilisation than the private sector does. I work with a simple New...
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