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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832189
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Financial frictions and inflation differentials in a monetary union
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2010
This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation … the fraction of borrowers and to a lesser extent the loan-to-value ratio - generate inflation differentials that are … characteristics of financial markets should be seen as a possible alternative explanation for the observable inflation dispersion in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274902
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Productivity, Place, and Plants : Revisiting the Measurement
Schoefer, Benjamin; Ziv, Oren - 2021
Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250039
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The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union
Costain, James S.; Nuno, Galo; Thomas, Carlos - 2022
We build a no-arbitrage model of the yield curves in a heterogeneous monetary union with sovereign default risk, which can account for the asymmetric shifts in euro area yields during the Covid-19 pandemic. We derive an affine term structure solution, and decompose yields into term premium and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080055
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Productive government expenditure and economic growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2008
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264372
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The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level with a Bubble
Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2020
primary surpluses can have a positively valued currency and low inflation. It also provides an example with closed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834354
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Inequality Convergence and Distribution Neutral Fiscal Policy
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
We provide an interesting empirical evidence dealing with the cross country data on equality i.e. movements of Gini coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality across nations has a negative relation with initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840691
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Fiscal Consolidation and Automatic Stabilization : New Results
Dolls, Mathias - 2020
We analyze how the combined effect of automatic stabilizers and discretionary changes in tax-benefit systems have affected the cushioning of income shocks in the Euro zone and the EU-27 in the period 2007–2014. We propose a new summary measure of the combined effect of automatic stabilizers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843440
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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3
Malley, Jim - 2008
the particular market failure justifying policy intervention. We subject the model to productivity shocks and use either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773638
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What Do We Know About the Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy? A Brief Survey of the Literature on Fiscal Multipliers
Castelnuovo, Efrem - 2019
This article reviews recent research findings on the effects of fiscal multipliers in normal times, during booms/busts, and in the presence of the zero lower bound. Studies on the effects of fiscal policy in open economy settings as well as contributions on the fiscal-monetary policy mix are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892219