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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence
Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001
This paper examines how the pass-through of monetary policy measures in 6 EMU countries has evolved over time and … whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398432
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Current account imbalances and structural adjustment in the Euro area : how to rebalance competitiveness
Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2009
Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850175
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Keynesian, non-Keynesian or no effects of fiscal policy changes? : the EMU case
Aarle, Bas van - 2001
period to the Economic andMonetary Union (EMU). Using several approaches suggested in the literatureon fiscal adjustments and … their macroeconomic effects and in the literatureon EMU, we analyze the effects of the fiscal adjustments during this … 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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Is fiscal policy coordination in EMU desirable?
Beetsma, Roel; Debrun, Xavier; Klaassen, Franc - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400878
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Revenue for EMU : a contribution to the debate on fiscal union
Iara, Anna - 2016
intensified, among others putting forward a fiscal stabilization capacity for EMU members. Contributions made so far to further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436156
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Catching up : the role of demand, supply and regulated price effects on the real exchange rates of four accession countries
MacDonald, Ronald; Wójcik, Cezary - 2003
The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession countries, with a view to making policy recommendations regarding their accession to full European Monetary Union. We employ a dynamic OLS panel estimator to investigate the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506491
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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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Output smoothing in EMU and OECD : can we forego government contribution? : a risk sharing approach
Marinheiro, Carlos Fonseca - 2003
This paper analyses the smoothing of asymmetric shocks to output for a sample of OECD countries. It also examines whether the private capital markets will be able to replace the government in providing output smoothing in the euro-area, in the near future. The research finds no evidence of large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509508
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Restructuring the ECB
Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003
Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511101
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Staying together or breaking apart : policy-makers endogenous coalitions formation in the European economic and monetary union
Aarle, Bas van; Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Engwerda, … - 2002
In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410410