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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 …
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Strategic interactions between fiscal and monetary authorities in a multi-country new-Keynesian model of a monetary union
Michalak, Tomasz; Engwerda, Jacob; Plasmans, Joseph - 2009
In this paper we consider a number of key issues related to the policy coordination in a monetary union that has been recently discussed in the literature. To this end we propose a multi-country New-Keynesian model of a monetary union cast in the framework of linear quadratic differential games....
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Simple Macroeconomics of Crypto Currency and the Political Economy of Monetary Policy in a Democracy
Marjit, Sugata; Gupta, Kausik - 2023
The paper attempts to examine the macroeconomic implications of the coexistence of crypto currency with legal tender money in the context of a democratic country such as India. The paper shows that macroeconomic implications of crypto currency can be captured by a simple extension of the IS-LM...
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Macroeconomic effects of capital tax rate changes
Bhattarai, Saroj; Lee, Jae Won; Park, Woong Yong; Yang, … - 2019
We study aggregate, distributional, and welfare effects of a permanent reduction in the capital tax rate in a dynamic equilibrium model with capital-skill complementarity. Such a tax reform leads to expansionary long-run aggregate effects, but is coupled with an increase in the skill premium....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018321
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Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Tax Rate Changes
Bhattarai, Saroj - 2019
We study aggregate, distributional, and welfare effects of a permanent reduction in the capital tax rate in a dynamic equilibrium model with capital-skill complementarity. Such a tax reform leads to expansionary long-run aggregate effects, but is coupled with an increase in the skill premium....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870641
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Structural Distortions and Decentralized Fiscal Policies in EMU
Beetsma, Roel; Bovenberg, Lans - 2001
The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315136
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Reserves for All? Central Bank Digital Currency, Deposits, and their (Non)-Equivalence
Niepelt, Dirk - 2018
I offer a macroeconomic perspective on the “Reserves for All” (RFA) proposal to let the general public use electronic central bank money. After distinguishing RFA from cryptocurrencies and relating the proposal to discussions about narrow banking and the abolition of cash I propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931926
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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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The role of fiscal policy in a monetary union : are National automatic stabilizers effective?
Colciago, Andrea; Muscatelli, Vito Antonio; Ropele, Tiziano - 2006
We assess the role of national fiscal policies, as automatic stabilizers, within a monetary union. We use a two-country New Keynesian DGE model which incorporates non-Ricardian consumers (as in Gal? et al. 2004) and a home bias in the composition of national consumption bundles. We find that...
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The Effects of Monetary Policy Surprises and Fiscal Sustainability Regimes in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn's (1998) approach through Schlicht's (2003)...
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