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Government spending shocks, sovereign risk and the exchange rate regime

Bonam, Dennis; Lukkezen, Jasper - 2013

Conventional wisdom teaches that the output response upon a fiscal expansion is higher under fixed than floating exchange rates for a small open economy. We analyse the effects of fiscal expansions using a New Keynesian model and find that this result reverses in times of sovereign default risk....

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Fiscal and monetary policy coordination, macroeconomic stability, and sovereign risk

Bonam, Dennis; Lukkezen, Jasper - 2014

In standard macroeconomic models, debt sustainability and price level determinacy are achieved when fiscal policy avoids explosive debt and monetary policy controls inflation, irrespective of the relative strengths of each policy stance. We examine how these policy requirements for equilibrium...

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The importance of accounting for time trends when estimating the Euro effect on trade

Bun, Maurice J. G.; Klaassen, Franc - 2004

To study the effect of the euro on international goods trade one typically estimates a panel model for the level of trade. Trade levels increase over time, and we show that this is not fully explained by the included regressors. Because the euro is only present at the end of the sample, this may...

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Has the Euro increased trade?

Bun, Maurice J. G.; Klaassen, Franc - 2002

A major economic reason for the introduction of the euro was its supposedly positive effect on intra-EMU trade …. Existing studies examine this suspicion indirectly using non-EMU data and report ambiguous results. We estimate the euro …-effect directly from data that include EMU observations. Using a dynamic panel model for annual bilateral exports, we find that the …

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Electoral cycles : do they really fit the data?

Galeotti, A.; Salford, G. - 2001

This paper provides a theoretical model of pre-electoral budget cycle and tests its empirical implications. Whenelections approach, incumbent policy-makers have an incentive to signal their competency by acting on economicvariables. Rational voters incorporate the knowledge of such mechanisms in...

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Electoral cycles : do they really fit the data?

Galeotti, A.; Salford, G. - 2001

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