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In this paper we survey the historical record for over two centuries on the connection between expansionary fiscal policy and inflation. As a backdrop, we briefly lay out several theoretical approaches to the effects of fiscal deficits on inflation: the earlier Keynesian and monetarist...
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income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 47 percent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … up to 30 per cent in the EU and up to 20 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic …
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The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …
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among the EU 15 and EU 10 in the enlarged European Union, as of 2004. We also demonstrate that the notion that the mere …
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Three large current account imbalances -- one deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro area) -- are subjected to a minimalist structural interpretation. Though simple, this interpretation enables us to assess how much of each of the imbalances require a real exchange...
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The accession countries to the euro area are increasingly binding their economic activity, external and internal, to the euro area countries. One aspect of this phenomenon concerns the currency invoicing of international trade transactions, where accession countries have reduced their use of the...
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use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period … 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to … our model and use these estimates, as well as the observed changes in tariffs, to quantify the effects from the EU …
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anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number of refugees from Syria and other broken countries sought to … migrate to EU countries (along very dangerous routes), and these refugees were met with fierce resistance, at least in some … particular reference to the EU. The aim is to quantify the migration flows associated with EU enlargement, and to analyze the …
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While economic theory highlights the usefulness of flexible exchange rates in promoting adjustment in international relative prices, flexible exchange rates also can be a source of destabilizing shocks. We find that when countries joining the euro currency union abandoned their national exchange...
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One of the most basic distortions created by the double taxation of corporate income is the disincentive to incorporate. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the aggregate allocation of assets and taxable income in the U.S. between corporate vs. noncorporate forms of organization...
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