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Thoughts on a fiscal union in EMU
Gadatsch, Niklas; Hollmayr, Josef; Stähler, Nikolai - 2016
Using an estimated large-scale New-Keynesian model, we assess welfare and business cycle consequences of a fiscal union within EMU. We differentiate between three different scenarios: public revenue equalisation, tax harmonisation and a centralised fiscal authority. Relative to the status quo,...
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Optimal fiscal substitutes for the exchange rate in a monetary union
Kaufmann, Christoph - 2016
This paper studies Ramsey-optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New Keynesian 2-country open economy framework, which is used to assess how far fiscal policy can substitute for the role of nominal exchange rates within a monetary union. Giving up exchange rate flexibility leads to welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561923
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Die Theorie der optimalen Währungsräume und die politische Reformfähigkeit - ein vernachlässigtes Kriterium
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998
In this paper, a short survey is given on the contents and some problems of the theory of optimal currency areas. In … conventional theory is inspired by a phenomenon that can be observed for example in Germany but also in other European countries … the nominal exchange rate. The conventional theory with the focus on private agents' behaviour - e.g. in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428120
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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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Cyclical adjustment in fiscal rules : some evidence on real-time bias for EU-15 countries
Kempkes, Gerhard - 2012
Most EU member states will adopt fiscal rules that refer to cyclically-adjusted borrowing limits. Under the standard cyclical adjustment procedure, trend increases in public debt based on cyclical components are prevented if the real-time output gaps used to calculate cyclical components balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009566470
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Is it really more dispersed? : measuring and comparing the stress from the common monetary policy in the euro area
Quint, Dominic - 2014
The ECB's one size monetary policy is unlikely to fit all euro area members at all times, which raises the question of how much monetary policy stress this causes at the national level. I measure monetary policy stress as the difference between actual ECB interest rates and Taylor-rule implied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349426
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The EMU consolidation game - or: Does 3.0 really mean 3.0?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998
Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428121
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EMU and fiscal discipline: the end of the depreciation threat
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1998
Are the characteristics of the exchange rate regime relevant for the degree of fiscal discipline? What are the conclusions for fiscal behavior in Europe after the transition to EMU? These are the central questions that are analyzed in this paper from a theoretical point of view. After a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428171
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Heterogeneity in euro-area monetary policy transmission : results from a large multi-country BVAR model
Mandler, Martin; Scharnagl, Michael; Volz, Ute - 2016
We study cross-country differences in monetary policy transmission across the large four euro-area countries (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) using a large Bayesian vector autoregressive model with endogenous prior selection. Drawing both on the posterior distributions of the cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444752