Showing 1 - 10 of 989
devaluations. There are two types of fiscal policies equivalent to an exchange rate devaluation-one, a uniform increase in import …We show that even when the exchange rate cannot be devalued, a small set of conventional fiscal instruments can … robustly replicate the real allocations attained under a nominal exchange rate devaluation in a dynamic New Keynesian open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117401
This paper considers both theoretical quest ions and empirical measures of the effects of various policies of income and payroll taxation on labor supply. It emphasizes deadweight loss as the correct criterion of taxation evaluation, rather than merely output effects. Distributional issues are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244123
Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation … the effectiveness of such policies using changes in value-added tax (VAT) and household survey data for Poland. We find … households increased their inflation expectations and willingness to purchase durables before the increase in VAT. Future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929012
Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871944
The paper reviews an event of 30 years ago from the perspective of today: a successful G-5 initiative to reverse what had been an overvalued dollar. The “Plaza Accord” is best viewed not as the precise product of the meeting on September 22, 1985, but as shorthand for a historic change in US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009917
, and the role of exchange-rate devaluation is to lower the real value of wages, thereby reducing involuntary unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050289
to the magnitude of the expected devaluation and to the length of the transitional period off loating. An implication of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220420
devaluation) and domestic monetary conditions in explaining interest rates movement. The model is tested using quarterly data for …, and that world interest rates, the rate of devaluation and domestic monetary conditions have affected domestic nominal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233891
address the issue of contractionary devaluations. The extended model considers the effect of money surprises, fiscal factors … procedure on data for 12 developing countries, provide some support to the short-run contractionary devaluation hypothesis; the … results obtained indicate that in the short-run a devaluation will generate a decline in aggregate output. It is also found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249266
devaluation of the exchange rate shortens implicit price contracts and increases the rate of price adjustment in the nontraded … devaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013213455