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Inter-Temporal Savings, Current Account Dynamics and Asymmetric Shocks in a Heterogeneous European Monetary Union
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...
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Economic Growth with Constraints on Tax Revenues and Public Debt : Implications for Fiscal Policy and Cross-Country Differences
Aizenman, Joshua - 2007
This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
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Local determinacy in incomplete-markets models
Hagedorn, Marcus - 2023
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The failed theory of the price level
Hagedorn, Marcus - 2024
The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) is a promise to obtain price level determinacy even if the nominal interest rate is constant. The idea is that a unique current price level ensures that the present value government budget constraint holds. I establish that this idea hinges on the...
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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269793
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Hitchhiker's Guide to Inflation in Libya
Cevik, Serhan - 2013
This paper presents an empirical investigation of inflation dynamics in Libya over the period 1964–2010, using cointegration and error correction models. While inflation inertia is found to be a key determinant of consumer price inflation, the econometric results indicate that government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082860
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Sovereign Debt Markets in Turbulent Times : Creditor Discrimination and Crowding-Out
Broner, Fernando - 2014
In 2007, countries in the Euro periphery were enjoying stable growth, low deficits, and low spreads. Then the financial crisis erupted and pushed them into deep recessions, raising their deficits and debt levels. By 2010,they were facing severe debt problems. Spreads increased and, surprisingly,...
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Disinflation, External Vulnerability, and Fiscal Intransigence : Some Unpleasant Mundellian Arithmetic
Tanner, Evan - 2017
This paper examines the policy challenges a country faces when it wants to both reduce inflation and maintain a sustainable external position. Mundell's (1962) policy assignment framework suggests that these two goals may be mutually incompatible unless monetary and fiscal policies are properly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955173
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Harnessing Windfall Revenues : Optimal Policies for Resource-Rich Developing Economies
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2009
, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We … show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription of an ever-lasting increase in consumption financed by borrowing … is large relative to initial foreign debt, is it optimal to build a SWF. The optimal time profile of consumption is …
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Fiscal Policy and Dutch Disease
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
In this paper we revisit the Dutch disease paying particular attention to the role of specific factors of production and capital stock dynamics. The main insight is that if the natural resource rich windfall is substantial but not large enough for the country to become a rentier, capital goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316031