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Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather...

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High Noon at the EU corral. An economic plan for Europe, September 2011

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The 2007+ credit crunch and economic crisis put European governments in severe debt, with talk about a Greek partial default. It also put the European banks into a zombie condition, while under Basel III the capital requirement rises from 8% to 10.5% (which requirement does not cover public debt...

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Money as gold versus money as water

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The rules of the Eurozone cause the euro to function as the gold standard. The US economy performs better in some respects, partly because of the advantages of fiat money. The treaty on the EMU has to be adapted in order not to become dependent upon current ad hoc measures, with the loss of...

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A tale of two growth engines: The interactive effects of monetary policy and intellectual property rights

Chu, Angus C.; Lai, Ching-Chong; Liao, Chih-Hsing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

How do intellectual property rights that determine the market power of firms influence the effects of monetary policy on economic growth and social welfare? To analyze this question, we develop a monetary R&D-based growth model with elastic labor supply. We find that monetary expansion reduces...

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Search and endogenous growth: when Romer meets Lagos and Wright

Chu, Angus C.; Lai, Ching-Chong; Liao, Chih-Hsing - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

In this note, we develop a search-based monetary growth model to analyze the growth and welfare effects of inflation. We introduce endogenous growth via capital externality into a two-sector search model and compare the effects of inflation to those from a standard cash-in-advance (CIA) growth...

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Conditions for turning the ex ante risk premium into an ex post redemption for EU government debt

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

differences not only because of liquidity but mainly because of the risk of default, as also reflected in credit default swaps … shorter maturities but at higher annual liquidity requirements meet with strong incentives to better manage their economies … credit default risk premium, the liquidity premium and a stigma factor. While much of the debate in the EU seems to be about …

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Monetary Policy, R&D and Economic Growth in an Open Economy

Chu, Angus C.; Cozzi, Guido; Lai, Ching-Chong; Liao, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study analyzes the growth and welfare effects of monetary policy in a two-country Schumpeterian growth model with cash-in-advance constraints on consumption and R&D investment. We find that an increase in the domestic nominal interest rate decreases domestic R&D investment and the growth...

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