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Advances in Monetary Policy and Macroeconomics
Arestis, Philip (ed.); Zezza, Gennaro (ed.) - 2007
This book deals with the key aspects of developments in monetary economics and macroeconomics, such as the New Consensus Macroeconomics, and further ones such as money, credit and the business cycle. Adding to the analysis are developments that focus on issues for open and spatial macroeconomics
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054267
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The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan
Ihori, Toshihiro - 2015
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special … emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012401959
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Inflation Dynamics in South Africa : The Role of Thresholds, Exchange Rate Pass-through and Inflation Expectations on Policy Trade-offs
Ndou, Eliphas - 2017
This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of South African inflation dynamics, using a variety of techniques including counterfactual analysis. The authors elaborate the roles in inflation of thresholds, nonlinearities and asymmetries introduced by economic conditions such as the size...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397495
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Economic Policies since the Global Financial Crisis
Arestis, Philip (ed.); Sawyer, Malcolm (ed.) - 2017
This book investigates the changing nature of economic policies following the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. Well-respected, international scholars come together to discuss the level of economic growth following the crisis, concerns over inequality in industrialised countries, and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397525
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Money, Stock Prices and Central Banks : A Cointegrated VAR Analysis
Wiedmann, Marcel - 2011
whether liquidity conditions play an important role in stock market developments. As an innovation, liquidity conditions enter … flows, which represent the share of global liquidity that arrives in the respective country. A second aim is to understand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015328
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Japan’s Lost Decade : Lessons for Asian Economies
Yoshino, Naoyuki (ed.); Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (ed.) - 2017
caught in a liquidity trap. This book argues that Japan’s economic stagnation stems from a vertical “investment-saving” (IS …This book discusses Japan’s long-term economic recession and provides remedies for that recession that are useful for … other Asian economies. The book addresses why Japan’s economy has stagnated since the bursting of its economic bubble in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397422
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market : The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
Gomes, Pedro - 2010
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in achieving the efficient allocation. High wages induce too...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135824
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How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets : The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776116
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Fiscal Multipliers and the Labour Market in the Open Economy
Faia, Ester - 2010
Several contributions have recently assessed the size of fiscal multipliers both in RBC models and New Keynesian models. None of the studies considers a model with frictional labour markets which is a crucial element, particularly at times in which much of the fiscal stimulus has been directed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146168
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Designing the European Model
Honkapohja, Seppo (ed.); Westermann, Frank (ed.) - 2009
This book examines existing problems in the European economy, focusing on labour markets, including labour market reform and outsourcing, as well as macroeconomic issues, such as macroeconomic stabilization in the Euro area and convergence and divergence in economic growth in the EU.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012106189