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The Dog that Didn't Bark : The Strange Case of Domestic Policy Cooperation in the 'New Normal'

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2015

This paper examines domestic policy cooperation, a curiously neglected issue. Both international and domestic cooperation were live issues in the 1970s when the IS/LM model predicted very different external outcomes from monetary and fiscal policies. Interest in domestic policy cooperation has...

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Unstash the Cash! Corporate Governance Reform in Japan

Aoyagi, Chie - 2014

Japan's high corporate savings might be holding back growth. We focus on the causes and consequences of the current … corporate behavior and suggest options for reform. In particular, Japan's weak corporate governance - as measured by available … comprehensive corporate governance reform should be a key component of Japan's growth strategy …

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Foreign Help Wanted : Easing Japan's Labor Shortages

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2015

Data and anecdotal evidence suggest that Japan is suffering from labor shortages, which are large in an international … focuses on policy options to ease Japan's labor shortages. In particular, we focus on possible measures to increase reliance …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015603

Spillovers from Japan's Unconventional Monetary Policy to Emerging Asia : A Global VAR Approach

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2016

We use a Global VAR model to study spillovers from the Bank of Japan's quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) on …

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Macroeconomic Model Spillovers and Their Discontents

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2013

The Great Recession underlined that policies in some countries can have profound spillovers elsewhere. Sadly, the solution of simulating large macroeconomic models to measure these spillovers has been found wanting. Typical models generate lower international correlations of output and financial...

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Fiscal Devaluation in a Monetary Union

Engler, Philipp - 2014

Using a DSGE model calibrated to the euro area, we analyze the international effects of afiscal devaluation (FD) implemented as a revenue-neutral shift from employer's socialcontributions to the Value Added Tax. We find that a FD in 'Southern European countries' has a strong positive effect on...

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The International Effects of Government Spending Composition

Ganelli, Giovanni - 2021

This paper helps resolve a paradox in the literature, noticed by Alesina and Perotti (1995), which is that, although government employment is an important component of public spending, the debate on the effects of fiscal policy focuses almost exclusively on shocks to non-wage government...

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Direct and Spillover Effects of Unconventional Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies

Gagnon, Joseph - 2017

This paper explores the effects of unconventional monetary and exchange rate policies. We find that official foreign asset purchases have large effects on current accounts that diminish as capital mobility rises and spill over to financially integrated countries. There is an additional effect...

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Mr Ricardo's Great Adventure: Estimating Fiscal Multipliers in a Truly Intertemporal Model

Bayoumi, Tamim; Sgherri, Silvia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We estimate tax multipliers in a "Blanchard-Yaari" consumption model where Ricardian equivalence is broken because the private sector discounts the future at a faster rate than the real rate of interest. The model fits U.S. data since 1955 extremely well-entailing a discount wedge of around 20...

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Fiscal Flows in the United States and Canada: Lessons for Monetary Union in Europe

Bayoumi, Tamim; Masson, Paul R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Regional flows of federal taxes and transfers within the United States and Canada are used to analyse long-term fiscal flows (the redistributive element) and short-term responses to regional business cycles (the stabilization element). In the United States, long-run flows amount to 22 cents in...

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