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Demand Patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium: Can We Explain the Differences?

Lebrun, Igor; Ruiz, Esther Pérez - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

core. This paper puts recent demand patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium into historical perspective. We find that …

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Germany: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

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Germany: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release; and Statement by the Executive Director for Germany

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014

KEY ISSUES Context: ? Germany fundamentals are sound: balance sheets are generally healthy, unemployment is at a … uncertainty (including about future energy costs), and fast approaching adverse demographic changes. ? Germany could do more to … increase its growth, thus strengthening its role as an engine of euro area recovery. Policy recommendations: ? Germany has the …

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German Unification: Economic Issues

Lipschitz, Leslie; McDonald, Donogh - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1990

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Recent Fiscal Developments in the European Countries of the G-7

Green, J. H.; Habermeier, Karl Friedrich; O'Callaghan, Gary - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1994

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Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany

Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

-run (noncyclical) unemployment rate in Germany by 1.4 percentage points. We also find that the welfare of employed households increases …

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Das Public Kapital: How Much Would Higher German Public Investment Help Germany and the Euro Area?

Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014

Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account surplus, but would also raise output over the longer-run as well as generate beneficial regional...

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Shock from Graying; Is the Demographic Shift Weakening Monetary Policy Effectiveness

Imam, Patrick A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Germany to confirm a weakening of monetary policy effectiveness over time with regards to unemployment and inflation. After …

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A Global Projection Model for Euro Area Large Economies

Jakab, Zoltan; Lukyantsau, Pavel; Wang, Shengzu - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015

The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. This paper creates a special version of GPM that includes the four largest Euro Area (EA) countries. The EA countries are more vulnerable to domestic and external demand shocks because...

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Trade Linkages, Balance Sheets, and Spillovers; The Germany-Central European Supply Chain

Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

Germany and the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia (the CE4) have been in a process of deepening economic … integration which has lead to the development of a dynamic supply chain within Europe—the Germany-Central European Supply Chain … relatively small. This is explained by the supply chain nature of trade integration: final demand in Germany is not necessarily …

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