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Rebalancing the euro area : is wage adjustment in Germany the answer?

Hoffmann, Mathias; Kliem, Martin; Krause, Michael; … - 2020

We assess to what extent wage inflation policies in Germany could contribute to an economic rebalancing in the euro … and output in Germany and the rest of the euro area. The duration of constant interest rates and expectations about the … consists of Germany, the rest of the euro area, and the rest of the world. …

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On the empirical relevance of the exchange rate as a shock absorber at the zero lower bound

Finck, David; Hoffmann, Mathias; Hürtgen, Patrick - 2023 - February 3, 2023

We estimate the effects of a negative asymmetric demand shock on the real exchange rate for the euro area vis-à-vis the United States, Canada, and Japan by state-dependent sign-restricted local projection methods. We find a real depreciation when interest rates are not at the ZLB, but also when...

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Do exchange rates absorb demand shocks at the ZLB?

Hoffmann, Mathias; Hürtgen, Patrick - 2021

According to the two-country full information New Keynesian model with flexible exchange rates, the real exchange rate appreciates in response to an asymmetric negative demand shock at the zero lower bound (ZLB) and exacerbates the adverse macroeconomic effects. This finding requires inflation...

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