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Macroeconomic policy making and current account imbalances in the euro area

Murai, Taiki; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021

The paper analyses the role of fiscal and monetary policy for the development of the current account imbalances in the euro area, including the most recent developments during the coronavirus crisis. Several financial transmission channels such as international bank lending, changes in TARGET2...

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Fiscal divergence and current account imbalances in Europe

Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013

Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...

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Harnessing windfall revenues : optimal policies for resource-rich developing economies

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Venables, Anthony - 2009

, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We … show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription of an ever-lasting increase in consumption financed by borrowing … is large relative to initial foreign debt, is it optimal to build a SWF. The optimal time profile of consumption is …

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Fiscal policy and Dutch disease

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2011

In this paper we revisit the Dutch disease paying particular attention to the role of specific factors of production and capital stock dynamics. The main insight is that if the natural resource rich windfall is substantial but not large enough for the country to become a rentier, capital goods...

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Saving Alberta's resource revenues : role of intergenerational and liquidity funds

Bremer, Ton S. van den; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2016

We use a welfare-based intertemporal stochastic optimization model and historical data to estimate the size of the optimal intergenerational and liquidity funds and the corresponding resource dividend available to the government of the Canadian province Alberta. To first-order of approximation,...

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Determinants of Japanese household saving behavior in the low-interest rate environment

Latsos, Sophia Anastasia; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021

This paper scrutinizes the role of prolonged, expansionary monetary policy on the savings behavior of Japanese households, focusing on the dramatic change of the household savings rate since 1998, from high to low savings. The literature generally attributes this change to the country’s shift...

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Foreign currency denominated assets and international shock absorption in Switzerland and Japan

Schnabl, Gunther - 2015

Currencies of countries with persistent current account surpluses and high foreign currency denominated assets such as the Swiss franc and Japanese yen are under a persistent appreciation pressure, what restricts the degree of freedom in the choice of exchange rate regime. Official announcements...

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Macroeconomic policy making, exchange rate adjustment and current account imbalances in emerging markets

Duarte, Pablo; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014

Since a series of crisis events after 2007, the discussion about the adjustment channels of current account imbalances has been revived. We discuss the effectiveness of exchange rates versus macroeconomic policies to rebalance current accounts for a set of 86 mainly emerging market economies. We...

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Japan's low inflation conundrum

Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2022

The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively high inflation to a low-growth period with...

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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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