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Fiscal divergence and current account imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013
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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Macroeconomic stabilization policies in the EMU : spillovers, asymmetries, and institutions
Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Engwerda, Jacob; Plasmans, Joseph - 2005
game approach of the endogenous coalition formation literature. The specific policy recommendations in the EMU context …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261121
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Fiscal and monetary interaction : the role of asymmetries of the stability and growth pact in EMU
Governatori, Matteo; Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W. - 2004
policy, where the main features characterising the policy-making are similar to those in EMU. National governments choose the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272870
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Has the EMU reduced wage growth and unemployment? Testing a model of trade union behaviour
Mikosch, Heiner; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2011
(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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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU?: a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2008
We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for structural breaks. We also apply modern panel cointegration techniques developed by...
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Pushing the limit? : fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union
Daniel, Betty Carolyn; Shiamptanis, Christos - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 37 (2013) 11, pp. 2307-2321
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The Euro Area Periphery Sovereigns' Fiscal Positions and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Hülsewig, Oliver - 2020
We explore the reaction of the euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions to an unconventional monetary policy shock. We estimate panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models over the period 2010-2018, and identify the shock by imposing sign restrictions. Our results suggest that the...
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Designing the Policy Mix in a Monetary Union
Kempf, Hubert - 2020
This paper studies the design of the policy mix in a monetary union, that is, the institutional arrangement specifying the relationships between the various policymakers present in the union and the extent of their capacity of action. It is assumed that policymakers do not cooperate. Detailing...
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The negative mean output gap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Voigts, Simon - 2019
We argue that in an economy with downward nominal wage rigidity, the output gap is negative on average. Because it is more difficult to cut wages than to increase them, firms reduce employment more during downturns than they increase employment during expansions. This is demonstrated in a simple...
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How informative are real time output gap estimates in Europe?
Kangur, Alvar; Kirabaeva, Koralai; Natal, Jean-Marc; … - 2019
We study the properties of the IMF-WEO estimates of real-time output gaps for countries in the euro area as well as the determinants of their revisions over 1994-2017. The analysis shows that staff typically saw economies as operating below their potential. In real time, output gaps tend to have...
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