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Spillovers in the Nordic Countries
Mircheva, Borislava; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden form a tightly integrated region which has strong ties with the euro area as well … of integration among the four Nordic economies. These differences are driven by the fact that Denmark and Finland have no … independent monetary policy, and Denmark and Norway are net energy exporters while Finland and Sweden are energy importers. We …
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Government Debt Issuance in the Euro Area
Fund, International Monetary - 2011
countries and Denmark. Using a newly constructed database on primary market debt issuance during 2007-09, we find evidence of a …
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Valuation of Unlisted Direct Investment Equity
Elkjaer, Thomas - 2009
This paper analyzes the seven valuation methods for unlisted direct investment equity included in the recently adopted IMF Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual, Sixth Edition (BPM6). Based on publicly available Danish data, we test the three methods that are generally...
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Spillovers to and from the Nordic Economies: A Macroeconometric Model Based Analysis
Vitek, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper analyzes the transmission of shocks and policies among and across the Nordic economies and the rest of the world. This spillover analysis is based on a pair of estimated structural macroeconometric models of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. We find...
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Fiscal policy and the real exchange rate
Chatterjee, Santanu; Mursagulov, Azer - 2012
Government spending on infrastructure has recently increased sharply in many emerging-market economies. This paper examines the mechanism through which public infrastructure spending affects the dynamics of the real exchange rate. Using a two-sector dependent open economy model with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009572527
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Fiscal foresight and information flows
Leeper, Eric M.; Walker, Todd B.; Yang, Shu-Chun S. - 2012
News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading...
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What determines government spending multipliers?
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J. - 2012
This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
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Policy analysis and forecasting in the world economy : a panel unobserved components approach
Vitek, Francis - 2012
This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618572
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Fiscal rules in response to the crisis : toward the “next-generation” rules ; a new dataset
Schächter, Andrea; Kinda, Tidiane; Budina, Nina; … - 2012
Strengthening fiscal frameworks, in particular fiscal rules, has emerged as a key response to the fiscal legacy of the crisis. This paper takes stock of fiscal rules in use around the world, compiles a dataset - covering national and supranational fiscal rules, in 81 countries from 1985 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620970
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Walking hand in hand : fiscal policy and growth in advanced economies
Cottarelli, Carlo; Jaramillo, Laura - 2012
Implementation of fiscal consolidation by advanced economies in coming years needs to take into account the short and long-run interactions between economic growth and fiscal policy. Many countries must reduce high public debt to GDP ratios that penalize longterm growth. However, fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615787