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countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal effects are included via after-tax interest rates. Other factors shown to be relevant …
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Fiscal rules are instrumental for restraining deficit and spending biases in euro area Member States that could threaten the smooth functioning of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Ideally, fiscal rules should combine characteristics such as sufficient flexibility to allow for appropriate...
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disagrees on even the qualitative response of key macroeconomic variables to government spending and tax shocks. We provide new … diverging results as regards the effects of tax shocks, with the estimated effects ranging from non-distortionary to strongly …
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This paper argues that any assessment on the intentional stance of fiscal policy should be based upon all the information available to policymakers at the time of fiscal planning. In particular, real-time data on the discretionary fiscal policy "instrument", the structural primary balance,...
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caused by euro area tax structures. Our analysis shows that lowering tax distortions to levels prevailing in the United … States would result in an increase in hours worked and output by more than 10 percent. At the same time, tax reductions would … have positive spillovers to the euro area’s trade partners, bolstering the case for tax reforms from a global perspective …
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In this paper, we present a model-based method for identifying fiscal closure rules in stochastic macroeconomic models. The methodology is based on the stability analysis of the model at hand, with an endogenous derivation of a reaction on the part of the fiscal authority to state variables in...
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implications of fiscal policy, which is specified by either a debt-based tax rule or a balanced-budget rule allowing for temporary …
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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...
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This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … decrease it can only do so gradually because of matching frictions which in turn implies that the tax burden remains high and … transition to the low-unemployment regime is not possible when tax rates are adjusted each period to balance the budget even …
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