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The paper analyses the transmission of global financial shocks to individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), in which monetary policy is delegated to the ECB and financial markets are fully integrated. Using a panel VAR model, we show that the asymmetric effects of global...
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Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected in the emergence … potential way to address such imbalances is through a fiscal devaluation. We use a DSGE model calibrated to the euro area to …
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Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected in the emergence … potential way to address such imbalances is through a fiscal devaluation. We use a DSGE model calibrated to the euro area to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487256
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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uncertainty shocks in the euro area and the US, paying particular attention to their effects on prices. While our results confirm …
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We introduce a Divisia monetary aggregate for the euro area that accounts for the heterogeneity across member countries … both, in terms of interest rates and the decomposition of monetary assets. In most of the euro area countries, the … the simple sum aggregate has a significant predictive content for recessions in euro area countries. …
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From 2014 until present, housing prices in Germany have been rising faster than consumer prices in all quarters except one, raising concerns about an excessive over-heating of the housing market. To assess the vulnerability of the German housing market to a future realignment of prices or even a...
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Based on a stock-flow model of the housing market we estimate the relationship of house prices and explanatory macroeconomic variables in Germany using a regional panel dataset for 402 administrative districts. Using regional data exploits the variation across local housing markets and overcomes...
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this paper the macroeconomic consequences of cross-border banking in monetary unions such as the euro area. For this … financial sector may have exacerbated the emergence of macroeconomic imbalances within the euro area. Additionally, we show the …
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The euro area crisis is often linked to the emergence of current account imbalances. As most of the deficit countries … of claims of domestic banks on debtors in other euro-area countries, and an increase is expected to lead to higher …
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