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Financial Frictions and Inflation Differentials in a Monetary Union
Hristov, Nikolay - 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/10013136243
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Catching-Up, Inflation Differentials and Credit Booms in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union : Some Implications for Emu and New EU Member States
MacDonald, Ronald - 2013
In this paper we propose an alternative explanation for the nature, sources and consequences of inflation rate … catching-up and inflation differentials and offer an interpretation of the nature of this interaction. Our discussion is in … inflation rates between Member States do not necessarily have to be an equilibrium phenomenon, even if the original shock comes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754168
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The Exchange Rate Susceptibility of Some European Core Industries and the Currency Union
Leuwer, David; Suessmuth, Bernd - 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between real exchange rate changes and the German, French and UK automobile and mechanical engineering sector. In stylized models, exports decline whenever the domestic currency appreciates and vice versa. Strategic firm behavior, however, can obscure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315771
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External Sovereign Debt in a Monetary Union : Bailouts and the Role of Corruption
Achury, Carolina - 2011
We build a tractable stylized model of external sovereign debt and endogenous international interest rates. In corrupt economies with rent-seeking groups stealing public resources, a politico-economic equilibrium is characterized by permanent fiscal impatience which leads to excessive issuing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121867
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Debt Stabilization and Debt Mutualization in a Monetary Union with Endogenous Risk Premia
Engwerda, Jacob C. - 2015
In this paper we analyse debt stabilization in a monetary union that features endogenous risk premia. In particular, we analyse debt stabilization in two diametrically opposed regimes. In the first regime, the “national fiscal discipline regime”, financial markets impose sovereign risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011725
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Fiscal Transfers in a Monetary Union with Exit Option
Hefeker, Carsten - 2015
' inflation aversion and exit costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025966
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Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union
Uhlig, Harald - 2013
This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076729
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Political Economy of Fiscal Unions
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2013
I formulate a political-economy model of a fiscal union where the threat of secession imposes a limit on fiscal redistribution between regions. I argue that the trade-off between implementing the region's preferred fiscal policy and benefiting from inter-regional risk sharing depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078538
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Strategic Interactions between Fiscal and Monetary Authorities in a Multi-Country New-Keynesian Model of a Monetary Union
Michalak, Tomasz - 2013
parameter combinations our results confirm the findings of Beetsma et al. (2001) that for symmetric inflation and output gap … central bank and the coalition of national governments is most intense under a symmetric inflation shocks when there is strong … conflict concerning the orientation of stabilisation policies. This conflict is less pronounced under an asymmetric inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753234
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Uncertainty and Fiscal Policy in an Asymmetric Monetary Union
Hefeker, Carsten - 2013
, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more members enter the monetary union, the fiscal disciplining effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753473