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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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The transmission of emerging market shocks to global equity markets

Fratzscher, Marcel (contributor); … - 2007

The paper analyses whether, and to what extent, emerging market economies (EMEs) have systemic importance for global financial markets, above and beyond their influence during crises episodes. Using a novel database of exogenous economic and political shocks for 14 systematically relevant EMEs,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003410617

Monetary policy in the media

Berger, Helge (contributor); Ehrmann, Michael (contributor); … - 2006

Media coverage of monetary policy actions is a central channel of a central bank's communication with the wider public, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB monetary policy decisions receive in the print media, and...

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Discretionary fiscal policy : review and estimates for the EU

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo - 2010

provide our own estimates for the EU countries. A fiscal expansion raises output and consumption and reduces the trade balance … open EU economies, consistent with larger leakage effects. Further direct estimates suggest that fiscal expansions in large … EU economies have non-negligible consequences for economic activity in the main trading partners. This provides a …

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Discretionary fiscal policies over the cycle : new evidence based on the ESCB disaggregated approach

Agnello, Luca; Cimadomo, Jacopo - 2009

This paper explores how discretionary fiscal policies on the revenue side of the government budget have reacted to economic fluctuations in European Union countries. For this purpose, it uses data on legislated revenue changes and structural indicators provided twice per year by National Central...

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Pension systems, ageing and the stability and growth pact

Beetsma, Roel (contributor); Oksanen, Heikki (contributor) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623944

Convergence and anchoring of yield curves in the euro area

Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel; Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2007

We study the convergence of European bond markets and the anchoring of inflation expectations in euro area countries using high-frequency bond yield data for France, Germany, Italy and Spain. We find that Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has led to substantial convergence in euro area sovereign...

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Transmission of government spending shocks in the euro area : time variation and driving forces

Kirchner, Markus; Cimadomo, Jacopo; Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2010

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...

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Is fiscal policy coordination in EMU desirable?

Beetsma, Roel; Debrun, Xavier; Klaassen, Franc - 2001

It is widely argued that Europe's unified monetary policy calls for the international coordination at the fiscal level. We survey the issues involved with such coordination of fiscal policy as a demand management tool and we use a simple model to investigate the circumstances under which...

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The pricing of sovereign risk and contagion during the European sovereign debt crisis

Beirne, John; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2013

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