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This paper attempts to gauge the effects of various fiscal and monetary policy rules on macroeconomic outcomes in the euro area. It consists of two major parts – a historical assessment and an assessment based on an extended scenario until 2030 – and it builds on the ECB-BASE –a...
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crisis. Furthermore, automatic fiscal stabilisers contributed significantly to counter-cyclical stabilisation, although their …
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This paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of the role of discretionary fiscal policy for inflation differentials across the 19 euro area countries over the period 1999-2019. The results confirm existing (older) literature that it is difficult to find robust evidence of the fiscal...
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
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There is no consensus about the causes of the reduction in business cycle volatility seen in many major economies over the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by...
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Revenue elasticities play a key role in forecasting, monitoring and analysing public finances under the European fiscal framework, which largely builds on cyclically adjusted indicators. This paper investigates whether there is evidence for dynamic – instead of the currently used static –...
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Due to input-output linkages, an industry level shock can widely transmit to the rest of the economy. We identify government policies on the automobile industry, which change final prices and estimate their effect on sales and production. An example could be the scrappage schemes that many...
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This paper investigates the contribution of private and public channels for consumption risk sharing in the EMU over … estimating how risk sharing has evolved since the start of the EMU, and in particular during the recent crisis. Our results … suggest that, whereas in the early years of the EMU only about 40% of country-specific output shocks were smoothed, in the …
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We test whether two key elements of the EU and Euro Area economic governance framework, the Stability and Growth Pact and the Lisbon Strategy, have had any impact on macroeconomic outcomes. We test this proposition using a difference-in-difference approach on a panel of over 30 countries, some...
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