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The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a...
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
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It is widely argued that Europe's unified monetary policy calls for the international coordination at the fiscal level …. We survey the issues involved with such coordination of fiscal policy as a demand management tool and we use a simple … model to investigate the circumstances under which coordination may be desirable. It turns out that coordination is …
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combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary …
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In this paper, sound public finances under the euro means sustainability in the long term instead of short- and medium-term fiscal discipline. The challenges to sustainability are identified for the four largest euro area member states, and several policy options for sustainability are...
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The conflicting standpoints on reforming the euro are creating more controversies than practical results. Mistrust between the participants led to short-sighted fiscal discipline that has amplified the economic disturbances. Expert analysis on the proposed reforms is often deficient as the...
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This paper studies the design of the policy mix in a monetary union, that is, the institutional arrangement specifying the relationships between the various policymakers present in the union and the extent of their capacity of action. It is assumed that policymakers do not cooperate. Detailing...
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In this paper we consider a number of key issues related to the policy coordination in a monetary union that has been … shocks, fiscal coordination between all the countries is counter-productive within a monetary union. The clash between the …-Keynesian literature on policy coordination by considering not only cases of non-coordination, fiscal cooperation and the grand coalition …
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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 interaction of monetary and fiscal policies is a crucial issue in a highly integrated economic area as the European Union. We argue that EMU, which introduced a common monetary policy and restrictions on fiscal policy at the national level, increases the need for macroeconomic policy...
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