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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 …

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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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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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Back to Keynes?

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

After a brief review of classical, Keynesian, New Classical and New Keynesian theories of macroeconomic policy, we assess whether New Keynesian Economics captures the quintessential features stressed by JM Keynes. Particular attention is paid to Keynesian features omitted in New Keynesian...

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Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Optimizing Model with Capital Accumulation and Finite Lives

Marini, Giancarlo; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper considers the effects of monetary and fiscal policies in an optimizing model with capital accumulation and finite lives. An increase in monetary growth is no longer superneutral in a money-capital economy, but leads to a reduction in the real interest rate and increases in the capital...

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International Interdependence and Policy Coordination in Economies with Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The development of the seven main OECD economies during the 1970s and 1980s is discussed. Subsequently, wage equations of the error-correction type for the seven largest OECD economies are estimated. The hypothesis of real wage rigidity cannot be rejected for the French, German, Italian and...

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Wage Rigidity and Capital Mobility in an Optimizing Model of a Small Open Economy

de Klundert, Theo C N J van; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper formulates an optimizing model of a small open economywith a representative (immortal) household, a firm and agovernment. The asset menu consists of domestic currency,non-traded bonds and traded bonds. There is a risk-premium ontraded bonds, which leads to deviations from perfect...

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Fiscal Aspects of Monetary Integration in Europe

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

An adverse supply shock hits a two-country Mundell-Fleming world and causes unemployment and a higher cost of living. The optimal fiscal policies under noncooperative and under international policy coordination are then contrasted under three alternative regimes: floating exchange rates with...

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