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Fiscal transfers in a monetary union with exit option

Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2015

It is widely debated whether a monetary union has to be accompanied by a fiscal transfer scheme to accommodate asymmetric shocks. We build a model of a monetary union with a central bank and two heterogeneous countries that are linked by a fiscal transfer scheme with repercussions on monetary...

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Limits of monetary policy autonomy by East Asian debtor central banks

Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Schobert, Franziska - 2012

thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus … liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of foreign reserves. We show based on an augmented Barro …-Gordon-type central bank loss function that in both cases surplus liquidity limits monetary policy autonomy. In case of fixed exchange …

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Central bank swap lines

Bahaj, Saleem; Reis, Ricardo - 2018 - First draft: October 2017

Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This paper analyses their monetary policy effects from three perspectives. First, from the perspective of the central banks, it shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit...

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A monetary equilibrium with the lender of last resort

Matsuoka, Tarishi; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023

reserves (a liquidity crisis) occurs endogenously. We show that discount window lending by the LLR is welfare-improving but … reduces banks' ex-ante incentive to hold monetary reserves, which increases the probability of a liquidity crisis, and can …

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Post-Thatcher fiscal strategies in the UK : an interpretation

Hughes Hallett, Andrew (contributor) - 2004

Fiscal policy in Britain has changed radically since the Keynesianism of the 1960s and 1970s. After a passive period under monetarism of the 1980s, fiscal policy is said to have adopted a leadership role with long term objectives (low debt, the provision of public services/ investment, and...

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Macroeconomic stabilization policies in the EMU : spillovers, asymmetries, and institutions

Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Engwerda, Jacob Christiaan; … - 2005

This paper studies the institutional design of the coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within a monetary union in the framework of linear quadratic differential games. A central role in the analysis plays the partitioned game approach of the endogenous coalition formation...

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...

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The monetary policy of the ECB : a Robin Hood approach?

Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013

We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECB s Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578

Monetary and fiscal policy interactions over the cycle : some empirical evidence

Muscatelli, V. Anton; Tirelli, Patrizio; Trecroci, Carmine - 2002

This paper estimates VAR models to examine the response of monetary and fiscal policy to macroeconomic targets, and the interdependence between the two policy instruments. The models are estimated for a number of G7 countries. Our findings show that, whilst monetary and fiscal policy are...

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