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What Kind of EU Fiscal Capacity? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Five European Countries in Times of Corona
Beetsma, Roel - 2020
Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU) budgetary assistance instrument to combat adverse temporary or permanent economic shocks hitting Member States. Suitably designed, there is quite substantial support for such an EU...
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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim - 2008
implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773638
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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …
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The Impacts of the Dollar-Renminbi Exchange Rate Misalignment on the China-United States Commodity Trade : An Asymmetric Analysis
Ferjani, Sabrine; Saafi, Sami; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, … - 2022
Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and realistic framework allowing for possible asymmetric effects. We use monthly time-series data over the...
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Real Convergence, Price Level Convergence and Inflation Differentials in Europe
Égert, Balázs - 2021
factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …
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Exchange Rates and Consumer Prices : Evidence from Brexit
Breinlich, Holger - 2020
This paper studies how the depreciation of sterling following the Brexit referendum affected consumer prices in the United Kingdom. Our identification strategy uses input-output linkages to account for heterogeneity in exposure to import costs across product groups. We show that, after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844422
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Nonlinearities and Asymmetric Adjustment to PPP in an Exchange Rate Model with Inflation Expectations
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2021
This paper estimates a model of the real exchange rate including standard fundamentals as well as two alternative measures of inflation expectations for five inflation targeting countries (UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden) over the period January 1993-July 2019. Both a benchmark linear...
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Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes : Costs of Political Misalignment
Bircan, Cagatay; Saka, Orkun - 2021
We document a strong political cycle in bank credit and industry outcomes in Turkey. In line with theories of tactical redistribution, state-owned banks systematically adjust their lending around local elections compared with private banks in the same province based on electoral competition and...
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Persistence, Non-Linearities and Structural Breaks in European Stock Market Indices
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019
indices, namely the FTSE100 (UK), DAX30 (Germany), CAC40 (France), IBEX35 (Spain) and FTSE MIB40 (Italy), using fractional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866377
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Taxing the Gender Gap : Labor Market Effects of a Payroll Tax Cut for Women in Italy
Rubolino, Enrico - 2022
in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293026