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The Macroeconomic Policy Challenges of Balance Sheet Recession : Lessons from Japan for the European Crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary monetary and fiscal policies is the hysteresis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081055
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Austerity, Growth and Inflation - Remarks on the Eurozone's Unresolved Competitiveness Problem
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013
While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial … markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087283
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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015
We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012270
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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 differentials in a monetary union, such as EMU. To achieve this, we build on the new neoclassical synthesis (NNS) framework, recently advanced by Goodfriend (2002) and Goodfriend and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754168
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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2021
The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316298
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Catching-Up and Inflation in Europe : Balassa-Samuelson, Engel's Law and Other Culprits
Égert, Balázs - 2013
This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094566
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Business Cycles, International Trade and Capital Flows : Evidence from Latin America
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
This paper adopts a flexible framework to assess both short- and long-run business cycle linkages between six Latin American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the period 1980:I-2011:IV. The result indicate that within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089557
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Fiscal Policies and Business Cycles in an Enlarged Euro Area
Staehr, Karsten - 2008
This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future … counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European countries than in members of the eurozone. The main differences arise from … the revenue side. Differences in the formation of fiscal policy between current and future eurozone countries decrease …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773620
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The European Central Bank's QE : A New Hope
Wieladek, Tomasz - 2016
We examine the impact of the ECB's QE on Euro Area real GDP and core CPI with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data from 2012M6 to 2016M4. We assess the total impact via a counter-factual exercise, country-by-country and through alternative transmission channels. QE announcement shocks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986934
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Does the Euro-Zone Diverge? A Stress Indicator for Analyzing Trends and Cycles in Real GDP and Inflation
Flaig, Gebhard; Wollmershaeuser, Timo - 2021
This paper presents a stress indicator for the eurozone that summarizes developments of trends and cycles in real GDP … that stress in the eurozone is mainly due to different trend growth rates and that for most of the Euro-zone countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317182