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One of the main functions of public debt is to smooth taxes and spending over time. In the Covid crisis, the Maastricht deficit restrictions were temporarily suspended to allow for large temporary deficits. As recovery sets in, countries are confronted with the task of consolidating the Covid...
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critical contemporary issues without the ammunitions of a more complex neo-classical system. Trade pampers inequality all … across the globe independent of trade patterns. It is likely to increase growth rate but that rate declines over time …
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We propose a theoretical framework to reconcile episodes of V-shaped and L-shaped recovery, encompassing the behaviour of the U.S. economy before and after the Great Recession. In a DSGE model with endogenous growth, negative demand shocks destroy productive capacity, moving GDP to a lower...
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unemployment rate fell from the highest to the lowest in the EU. Over the same period a record number of jobs was created and all … the indicators suggest that full employment was achieved. The primary reason for this employment miracle was the output … spending from income support to active labour market policies, played a positive role. The fact that unemployment has risen …
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bailouts by the EU, ECB and IMF), jointly with the observed deterioration in institutional quality (specifically, in the degree …
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, as the needs of its clients and the type of crisis changed substantially over time. Some deceptively "new" IMF activities … are not entirely new. Before emerging market economies dominated IMF programs, advanced economies were its earliest (and … largest) clients through the 1970s. While currency problems were the dominant trigger of IMF involvement in the earlier …
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The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the monetary overinvestment theories of Hayek and Mises. We argue that ultra-loose monetary policies create incentives to substitute real investment by financial investment. When...
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
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