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The Debt Brake : Business Cycle and Welfare Consequences of Germany's New Fiscal Policy Rule

Mayer, Eric - 2016

In a New Keynesian DSGE model with non-Ricardian consumers, we show that automatic stabilization according to a countercyclical spending rule following the idea of the debt brake is well suited both to steer the economy and in terms of welfare. In particular, the adjustment account set up to...

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Government Expenditures and Unemployment : A DSGE Perspective

Mayer, Eric - 2016

In a New Keynesian DSGE model with labor market frictions and liquidity-constrained consumers aggregate unemployment is likely to increase due to a non-persistent government spending shock. Furthermore, the group of asset-holding households reacts very differently from the group of...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel - 2016

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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