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Managing households' expectations with salient economic policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2019 - This version: August 2019
consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057290
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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702880
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Unconventional fiscal policy, inflation expectations, and consumption expenditure
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2016
Unconventional fiscal policies incentivize households to accelerate consumption by generating future consumer price … study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal policies on consumption expenditure via the inflation-expectations channel … intratemporal substitution from non-durable to durable consumption. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436147
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A tale of two surplus countries : China and Germany
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2019
We analyze current account imbalances through the lens of the two largest surplus countries; China and Germany. We observe two striking patterns visible since the 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis. First, while China has been gradually reducing its current account surplus, Germany’s surplus has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024585
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Did US consumers 'save for a rainy day' before the Great Recession?
Anundsen, André Kallåk; Nymoen, Ragnar - 2015
the period 1980q1-2011q4. That is, income is more often found to predict consumption and saving than the converse. Our … consumption and by exploring the direction of Granger causality between the two series. We also give evidence that house price … changes played a role in the US income and consumption dynamics, before, during and after the Great Recession. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518800
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813611
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Keynesian, non-Keynesian or no effects of fiscal policy changes? : the EMU case
Aarle, Bas van - 2001
periodon private consumption. Thereby, we also take the specific context of thetransition towards EMU explicitly into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400376
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011986
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541123