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What do we really know about fiscal sustainability in the EU? : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641707
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730274
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Economic, political and institutional determinants of budget deficits in the European Union
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
Using an extended data set of EU countries ranging from 1971-2006 and relevant econometric methods, we investigate the … economic, political, and institutional determinants of government deficits in the EU. The results show a strong opportunistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831961
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The determinants of economic growth in European regions
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
countries is mostly a characteristic of regions in old EU member states. We also find robust evidence of positive growth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806087
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Economic and political determinants of budget deficits in the European Union : a dynamic random coefficient approach
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808131
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Bootstrap panel Granger-causality between government budget and external deficits for the EU
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009
period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France … deficit ; external imbalance ; real exchange rates ; EU ; OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818006
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The ECB's enhanced credit support : keynote address at the Univ. of Munich, 13 July 2009
Trichet, Jean-Claude - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897431
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Price dispersion in the Euro Area : the case of a symmetric oil price shock
Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009
This paper studies the causes of price dispersion in the euro area emerging in response to a shock that hits all member countries symmetrically. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 1996 - 2007 to generate impulse responses of a range of price and wage variables to an oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871916
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Monetary policy transmission and house prices : European cross-country evidence
Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009
This paper explores the importance of housing and mortgage market heterogeneity in 12 European countries for the transmission of monetary policy. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 19952006 to generate impulse responses of key macroeconomic variables to a monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872444
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Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? : new evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2009
Nowadays, it is widely believed that greater disclosure and clarity over policy may lead to greater predictability of central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the information provided by a Taylor rule model in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872830