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The macroeconomic policy challenges of balance sheet recession : lessons from Japan for the European crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the … characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743745
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231567
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Analysis of monetary policy and financial stability : a new paradigm
Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Osorio, Carolina; Tsomocos, … - 2009
This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923247
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011306110
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772911
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444072
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509484
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550195
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Sustainability and solvency of government finances under the euro : illustrations and policy Options
Oksanen, Heikki - 2020
resort for a euro area government under liquidity shortage to prevent it from developing into a general financial crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238506
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057290