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This report investigates monetary transmission in a monetary union of developing countries (West-African monetary union or Communauté Financière Africaine, CFA). This requires existing monetary transmission models to be adapted. Three econometric methods are applied to assess the impact of...
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This paper examines the interaction of real exchange rates and current account movements in open economies subject to monopolistic competition with sticky price-setting behavior and distortionary taxes. We find that the correlations between fiscal balances and the current account depend on the...
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This survey, which was conducted in September 1998, shows that the degree of acceptance of the Euro has grown to 78% among the public and 94% among businesses. Merely a quarter of the public is aware, however, of the starting year of the EMU, compared to 70% among large enterprises and 40 %...
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This paper provides a survey of the economic literature on immigration. We first give an impression of immigration in the Netherlands in 1500-1960, followed by a discussion of the long term economic consequences of the mass migration preceding Word War I. We then discuss some literature which...
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regulating capital is associated with declining liquidity uffers. The interaction of liquidity regulation and monetary policy as …
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dependence, physical and institutional barriers to trade and associated policy shocks increase volatility sharply and harm growth …
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We explore the international spillovers from fiscal policy shocks via trade in Europe. A fiscal expansion stimulates …
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This paper re-assesses findings of the literature that the systematic debt stabilising response in fiscal policy has … standard approach to the specific context of Economic and Monetary Union. Results show that before 1993 policy responses …
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Empirical fiscal policy reaction functions based on ex post data cannot be said to describe fiscal policymakers … policymakers were trying to do requires real time data. This paper compares fiscal policy reaction functions for 14 European … and develop a new approach to estimate the automatic and discretionary fiscal policy responses to changing economic …
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We use an overlapping generations model to show that a bail-out is the optimal response to a fiscal crisis when the level of integration in a Monetary Union is high and the departure from Ricardian equivalence is significant. As it may not be optimal expost, the no bail-out rule is not credible...
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