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Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
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This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
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game approach of the endogenous coalition formation literature. The specific policy recommendations in the EMU context …
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policy, where the main features characterising the policy-making are similar to those in EMU. National governments choose the …
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period to the Economic andMonetary Union (EMU). Using several approaches suggested in the literatureon fiscal adjustments and … their macroeconomic effects and in the literatureon EMU, we analyze the effects of the fiscal adjustments during this … periodon private consumption. Thereby, we also take the specific context of thetransition towards EMU explicitly into …
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It is widely argued that Europe's unified monetary policy calls for the international coordination at the fiscal level. We survey the issues involved with such coordination of fiscal policy as a demand management tool and we use a simple model to investigate the circumstances under which...
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intensified, among others putting forward a fiscal stabilization capacity for EMU members. Contributions made so far to further …
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(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary …. Although we come up with some weak evidence for increased business cycle amplitudes within the EMU, we neither find a … significant general effect of the EMU on wage growth nor on unemployment. …
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This paper examines how the pass-through of monetary policy measures in 6 EMU countries has evolved over time and …
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