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Will the Centralisation of Carbon Pricing Revenue in the EU Lead to Laxer Climate Policy?
Fuest, Clemens; Meier, Volker - 2021
We analyse the economic impact of using carbon pricing revenue to fund the EU budget. Such a reform would redistribute from countries with above average carbon intensive production to less carbon intensive countries. Once the reform is implemented, the low carbon countries will prefer a lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235113
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The Challenge of Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of COVID-19 Interventions —Toward an Integrated Economic and Epidemiological Approach
Dorn, Florian; Lange, Berit; Gstrein, David; Vanella, … - 2022
Decisions on public health measures to contain a pandemic are often based on parameters such as expected disease burden and additional mortality due to the pandemic. Both pandemics and non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight pandemics, however, produce economic, social, and medical costs. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240575
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The Fragility of two Monetary Regimes: The European Monetary System and the Eurozone
Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened. This came at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328861
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Has the Eurozone Become Less Fragile? Some Empirical Tests
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2015
In this paper we provide empirical evidence documenting the nature of the Eurozone's fragility. We find that during … periods of turmoil, financial markets have tended to impose strong programs of austerity on member countries of the Eurozone … present in the Eurozone. Our policy conclusion is that the institutional changes that have been introduced in the Eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480830
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Fiscal Rules, Financial Stability and Optimal Currency Areas
De Grauwe, Paul; Foresti, Pasquale - 2015
In this paper we suggest that Eurozone countries face a policy trade-off among: 1) a common rule imposing co … conclude that the intense fiscal rules that have been introduced in the Eurozone after the emergence of the debt crisis reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531865
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Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone: An empirical test
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012
We test the hypothesis that the government bond markets in the Eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self … countries in the Eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt to GDP ratios and fiscal space … argue that this can drive member countries of the Eurozone into bad equilibria. We also find evidence that after years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282067
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A fragile Eurozone in search of a better governance
De Grauwe, Paul - 2011
self-fulfilling multiple equilibria arise. I analyze the implications of this fragility for the governance of the Eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285539
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A new two-pillar strategy for the ECB
De Grauwe, Paul; Gros, Daniel - 2009
The ECB has been arguing in the past that since there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability, the pursuit of price stability is the best a central bank can do to also maintain financial stability. We argue that there is a potential trade-off between price stability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266001
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Is monetary policy in the Eurozone less effective than in the US?
De Grauwe, Paul; Storti, Cláudia Costa - 2005
There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the … monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries. This consists in collecting the estimated transmission coefficients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276746
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The impact of FX central bank intervention in a noise trading framework
Beine, Michel; De Grauwe, Paul; Grimaldi, Marianna - 2005
In this paper we investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBI) in a noise trading model with chartists and fundamentalists. We first estimate a model in which chartists extrapolate past returns and fundamentalists forecast a mean reverting dynamics of the exchange rate towards a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261316