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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … policy autonomy in several areas, such as monetary policy and fiscal policy. The paper shows that EMU has helped reduce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605002
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Pushing the limit? : fiscal policy in the European Monetary Union
Daniel, Betty Carolyn; Shiamptanis, Christos - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 37 (2013) 11, pp. 2307-2321
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196884
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What Do We Really Know about Fiscal Sustainability in the EU? A Panel Data Diagnostic
Afonso, António - 2007
We assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU15 over the period 1970-2006 using stationarity and cointegration analysis. Specifically, we use panel unit root tests of the first and second generation allowing in some cases for structural breaks. We also apply modern panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775987
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Designing QE in a Fiscally Sound Monetary Union
Bletzinger, Tilman - 2018
This paper develops a tractable model of a monetary union with a sound fiscal governance structure and shows how in such environment the design of monetary policy above and at the lower bound constraint on short-term interest rates can be linked to well-known findings from the literature dealing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917169
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Assessing the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix in the Euro Area
Bańkowski, Krzysztof; Christoffel, Kai Philipp; Faria, … - 2021
This paper attempts to gauge the effects of various fiscal and monetary policy rules on macroeconomic outcomes in the euro area. It consists of two major parts – a historical assessment and an assessment based on an extended scenario until 2030 – and it builds on the ECB-BASE –a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312080
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The Political Economy Under Monetary Union : Has the Euro Made a Difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2021
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … policy autonomy in several areas, such as monetary policy and fiscal policy. The paper shows that EMU has helped reduce the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316460
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Enlarged European Union
Pogorelec, Sabina - 2021
gains from fiscal policy cooperation between the new EU members and the euro area (EMU). Fiscal cooperation is defined in … between cooperating and not cooperating, but the new EU members still prefer not to cooperate with EMU in terms of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317557
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The negative mean output gap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Voigts, Simon - 2019
We argue that in an economy with downward nominal wage rigidity, the output gap is negative on average. Because it is more difficult to cut wages than to increase them, firms reduce employment more during downturns than they increase employment during expansions. This is demonstrated in a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103632
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How informative are real time output gap estimates in Europe?
Kangur, Alvar; Kirabaeva, Koralai; Natal, Jean-Marc; … - 2019
We study the properties of the IMF-WEO estimates of real-time output gaps for countries in the euro area as well as the determinants of their revisions over 1994-2017. The analysis shows that staff typically saw economies as operating below their potential. In real time, output gaps tend to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103755
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Large-scale bond purchases in a currency union with segmentation in the market for government debt
Tischbirek, Andreas - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 95 (2018), pp. 37-69
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004904