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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....

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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 … creation in Japan's post-bubble period. With the price level being assumed to be dependent on both goods with free market …

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The liquidity channel of fiscal policy

Bayer, Christian; Born, Benjamin; Luetticke, Ralph - 2020

—the liquidity premium. We rationalize this finding in an estimated heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete … markets and portfolio choice, in which public debt affects private liquidity. In this environment, the short-run fiscal … multiplier is amplified by the countercyclical liquidity premium. This liquidity channel stabilizes investment and crowds in …

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Monetary policy in Turkey after Central Bank independence

Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kantur, Zeynep; Taş, M. Anil; … - 2015

We present an accessible narrative of the Turkish economy since its great 2001 crisis. We broadly survey economic developments and pay particular attention to monetary policy. The data suggests that the Central Bank of Turkey was a strong inflation targeter early in this period but began to pay...

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Is optimal monetary policy always optimal?

Davig, Troy; Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2015

No. And not only for the reason you think. In a world with multiple inefficiencies the single policy tool the central bank has control over will not undo all inefficiencies; this is well understood. We argue that the world is better characterized by multiple inefficiencies and multiple policy...

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Fiscal multipliers and the choice of zero lower bound modeling

Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013

In this note we elaborate on the effect of the modeling choice of the zero lower bound on the size of the fiscal multiplier. To this end we contrast two different ways to implement the ZLB in a New Keynesian model: the ZLB modeled as an endogenous central bank reaction to a contractionary demand...

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Secular stagnation : insights from a new Keynesian model with hysteresis effects

Aarle, Bas van - 2016

To analyse the most important aspects of the Secular Stagnation hypothesis, this paper considers the effects of hysteresis in potential output in a New-Keynesian model that is extended with endogenous potential output. To do so, a number of simulations of relevant scenarios is undertaken. It is...

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Transatlantic monetary and fiscal policy interaction

Aarle, Bas van; Garretsen, Harry; Huart, Florence - 2003

This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...

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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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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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