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Simulating the Elimination of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax
Fehr, Hans - 2013
We simulate corporate tax reform in a single good, five-region (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, India) model, featuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071508
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Monetary Policy and Performance in the U.S., Japan and Europe, 1973-86
Fischer, Stanley - 2007
Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777224
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Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China
Fehr, Hans - 2009
, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … prospects. And, rather than seeing the real wage per unit of human capital fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767513
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Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area
Ireland, Peter N. - 2011
This paper estimates, using data from the United States and Euro Area, a two-country stochastic growth model in which both neutral and investment-specific technology shocks are nonstationary but cointegrated across economies. The results point to large and persistent swings in productivity, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131508
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Eurosystem Monetary Targeting : Lessons from U.S. Data
Rudebusch, Glenn D. - 2010
Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137167
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Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk : Lessons from the U.S. And Europe
Ang, Andrew - 2011
We study the nature of systemic sovereign credit risk using CDS spreads for the U.S. Treasury, individual U.S. states, and major European countries. Using a multifactor affine framework that allows for both systemic and sovereign-specific credit shocks, we find that there is considerable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125926
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Why Europe Should Love Tax Competition - and the U.S. Even More so
Janeba, Eckhard - 2010
parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762903
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U.S. Antidumping Policies : The Case of Steel
Eichengreen, Barry; van der Ven, Hans - 2021
This paper examines the controversy surrounding recent allegations that foreign producers are dumping steel products onto U.S. markets. The paper is in four sections, which take four quite distinct views of dumping and recent U.S. antidumping policies, emphasizing the changing definition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220965
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Price Level Convergence Among United States Cities : Lessons for the European Central Bank
Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Mark, Nelson C.; Sonora, Robert J. - 2021
We study the dynamics of price indices for major U.S. cities using panel econometric methods and find that relative price levels among cities mean revert at an exceptionally slow rate. In a panel of 19 cities from 1918 to 1995, we estimate the half-life of convergence to be approximately nine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221841
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Do Balanced Budget Rules Work? U.S. Experience and Possible Lessons for the Emu
Inman, Robert P. - 2021
The `Excessive Deficit Procedure' of the Maastricht Treaty on Economic and Monetary Union proposes two fiscal convergence conditions for entry and continued membership in the EMU: 1) a country's overall budget deficit for each fiscal year must be equal to or below 3% of GDP, and 2) a country's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013223574