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Macroeconomic Policy Making and Current Account Imbalances in the Euro Area
Murai, Taiki; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021
The paper analyses the role of fiscal and monetary policy for the development of the current account imbalances in the euro area, including the most recent developments during the coronavirus crisis. Several financial transmission channels such as international bank lending, changes in TARGET2...
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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
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Twin Deficits Through the Looking Glass : Time-Varying Analysis in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Coelho, José Carlos - 2022
Using two measures of the fiscal position, the cyclically adjusted primary budget balance (CAPB) and the total budget balance, we assess the Twin Deficit Hypothesis for the Euro Area in the period 1995-2020. Furthermore, we estimate time-varying coefficients of the current account balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306033
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Budgetary and external imbalances relationship: a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009
We assess the cointegration relationship between current account and budget balances, and effective real exchange rates …, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship … panel cointegration tests used allow for within and between correlation, while the SUR results show both positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264569
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The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2020
Epidemiological models assume gravity-like interactions of individuals across space without microfoundations. We combine a simple epidemiological frame-work with a dynamic model of individual location choice. The model predicts that flows of people across space obey a structural gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833717
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Bilateral Trade Imbalances
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2019
Bilateral trade imbalances are determined by aggregate trade imbalances, production and expenditure patterns, and trade barriers. We calibrate a dynamic many-sector trade model to match the recent sectoral trade and production shares of 40 economies and the rest of the world. Through a variance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861448
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Fiscal Consolidation and the Current Account : OECD Evidence
Breuer, Christian - 2020
We apply a "new" conventional (CAPB-based) measure of fiscal policy, which is less prone to endogeneity issues, and find that a 1-percent of GDP fiscal consolidation leads to the improvement of the current account-to-GDP ratio by approximately 0.8 percent of GDP, while previous research based on...
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The Euro Exchange Rate and Germany's Trade Surplus
Hohberger, Stefan - 2019
We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890627
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What Do We Really Know About the Transatlantic Current Account?
Braml, Martin - 2019
Do the U.S. have a current account surplus or a deficit with the EU? Since 2009, official sources disagree: The U.S. Department of Commerce claims a consistent U.S. surplus while Eurostat reports the opposite. International transactions are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but the...
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Terms of trade, catch-up, and home market effect: the example of Japan
Urban, Dieter M. - 2007
. These two effects are tested against each other in a cointegration analysis for Japan and the US from 1957 until 1997 …
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