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Smells Like Fiscal Policy? Assessing the Potential Effectiveness of the ECB's OMT Program
Hristov, Nikolay - 2014
This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECB's Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
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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
In this paper we consider a number of key issues related to the policy coordination in a monetary union that has been … shocks, fiscal coordination between all the countries is counter-productive within a monetary union. The clash between the …-Keynesian literature on policy coordination by considering not only cases of non-coordination, fiscal cooperation and the grand coalition …
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Fiscal Transfers in a Monetary Union with Exit Option
Hefeker, Carsten - 2015
It is widely debated whether a monetary union has to be accompanied by a fiscal transfer scheme to accommodate asymmetric shocks. We build a model of a monetary union with a central bank and two heterogeneous countries that are linked by a fiscal transfer scheme with repercussions on monetary...
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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...
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The Role of Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union : Are National Automatic Stabilizers Effective?
Colciago, Andrea; Muscatelli, Anton; Ropele, Tiziano; … - 2021
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 Gali et al. 2004) and a home bias in the composition of national consumption bundles. We find that...
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Uncertainty and Fiscal Policy in an Asymmetric Monetary Union
Hefeker, Carsten - 2013
The paper examines the monetary-fiscal interactions in a monetary union model with uncertainty due to imperfect central bank transparency. We first show that monetary uncertainty disciplines fiscal policymakers and thereby reduces taxes, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more...
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What Do We Really Know About Fiscal Sustainability in the EU? A Panel Data Diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2021
We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for structural breaks. We also apply modern panel cointegration techniques developed by...
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The Monetary Policy of the ECB : A Robin Hood Approach?
Drometer, Marcus - 2013
We derive counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the period 1999 to 2012 to approximate the interest rates countries would have implemented had they still been able to conduct independent monetary policy. We find that prior to the financial crisis the...
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Regional Heterogeneity, the Rise of Public Debt and Monetary Policy in Post-Bubble Japan : Lessons for the EMU
Fischer, Raphael - 2016
Both Japan and parts of the European Monetary Union have experienced boom and bust in stock and real estate markets, which have been followed by a lasting crisis. The paper analyses the role of a high degree of regional heterogeneity for public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis....
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International Fiscal Policy Coordination and GDP Comovement
Sly, Nicholas - 2013
fact that fiscal policy coordination is an important avenue by which national economies become more integrated, influencing … the transmission of macroeconomic shocks between countries. We find that changes in fiscal policy coordination - as … policy coordination …
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