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The euro area has been experiencing a prolonged period of weak economic activity and very low inflation. This paper reviews models of business cycle stabilization with an eye to formulating lessons for policy in the euro area. According to standard models, after a large recessionary shock...
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We study the incidence and severity of lower-bound episodes and the efficacy of three types of state-dependent policies—forward guidance about the future path of interest rates, large-scale asset purchases and spending-based fiscal stimulus—in ameliorating the adverse consequences stemming...
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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...
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can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no …-driven liquidity traps. Raising the inflation target or appointing an inflation-conservative central banker improves inflation outcomes … sufficiently less concerned with government spending stabilization than society can eliminate expectations-driven liquidity traps …
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-maker uses government spending more aggressively to stabilise inflation and the output gap in a liquidity trap than an authority …
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We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...
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a liquidity trap? To provide an answer, we employ a small stochastic New Keynesian model with a zero bound on nominal …-term nominal interest rate and debt-financed government spending. The optimal policy response to a liquidity trap critically … sector expectations that helps to dampen the fall in output and inflation at the outset of the liquidity trap …
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How is the price level determined in a monetary union when the common monetary policy pegs the nominal interest rate? How are the price levels in the member countries determined? We extend the fiscal theory of the price level to the case of a heterogenous monetary union. Price level determinacy...
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