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Managing households' expectations with salient economic policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2019 - This version: August 2019
The empirical effectiveness of economic policies that operate theoretically through similar channels differs substantially. We document this fact by comparing an easy-to-grasp expectations-based policy, unconventional fiscal policy, with a policy whose implications are harder to understand by...
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Labor market institutions, fiscal multipliers, and macroeconomic volatility
Boeck, Maximilian; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Glocker, … - 2022
We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both...
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The ECB's policy, the recovery fund and the importance of trust : the case of Greece
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; … - 2021
This paper, using a microfounded macroeconomic model that embeds the key features of the Greek economy, studies the efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock. The paper attempts to give quantitative answers to...
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
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Can central banks do the unpleasant job that governments should do?
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; … - 2023
We investigate what happens when the fiscal authorities do not react to rising public debt so that the unpleasant task of fiscal sustainability falls upon the Central Bank (CB). In particular, we explore whether the CB's bond purchases in the secondary market can restore stability and...
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What do we know about the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy? : a brief survey of the literature on fiscal multipliers
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Lim, Guay C. - 2018
This article reviews recent research findings on the effects of fiscal multipliers in normal times, during booms/busts, and in the presence of the zero lower bound. Studies on the effects of fiscal policy in open economy settings as well as contributions on the fiscal-monetary policy mix are...
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Limits of monetary policy autonomy by East Asian debtor central banks
Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Schobert, Franziska - 2012
thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus … liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of foreign reserves. We show based on an augmented Barro …-Gordon-type central bank loss function that in both cases surplus liquidity limits monetary policy autonomy. In case of fixed exchange …
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Central bank swap lines
Bahaj, Saleem; Reis, Ricardo - 2018 - First draft: October 2017
Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This paper analyses their monetary policy effects from three perspectives. First, from the perspective of the central banks, it shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit...
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The impact of the ECB's PEPP project on the COVID-19-Induced crisis in the corporate bond market
Cohen, Lior; Furman, Itai - In: Economics letters 235 (2024), pp. 1-4
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The monetary policy of the ECB : a Robin Hood approach?
Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013
We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...
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