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The fiscal multiplier: positive or negative?
Tervala, Juha - 2009
This study examines whether the fiscal multiplier can be negative for certain types of government spending. The key result is that the fiscal multiplier can be negative if there is a high degree of substitutability between private and government consumption and government consumption is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503008
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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited
Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft
This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487099
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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration
Schmidt, Peter - 2012
convergence or economic cohesion, respectively. Following this strand of theory no regional policy is needed to achieve … convergence among the regions or nations of a common market. Thus, comparing the two internal markets, the question comes up if … inhibiting internal migration, which is one of the key measures in achieving convergence among the nations in the Single European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515661
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Fiscal devaluation in a monetary union : conference paper
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2014
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected in the emergence of current account imbalances. Given that exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487256
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Fiscal devaluation in a Monetary Union
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2013
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected in the emergence of current account imbalances. Given that exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221275
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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited
Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014
This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075859