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In search of the Euro area fiscal stance
Albonico, Alice; Tirelli, Patrizio; Paccagnini, Alessia - 2016
This paper investigates the role of fiscal policies over the aggregate EMU business cycle. Previous studies, based on the assumption of non-separability between public and private consumption, obtain a large public consumption multiplier, a small fraction of non-Ricardian households and,...
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Identifying the shocks behind business cycle asynchrony in Euroland
Trenkler, Carsten; Weber, Enzo - 2012
This paper investigates which shocks drive asynchrony of business cycles in the euro area. Thereby, it unites two strands of literature, those on common features and on structural VAR analysis. In particular, we show that the presence of a common cycle implies collinearity of structural impulse...
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Digitalisation : channels, impacts and implications for monetary policy in the euro area
2021
the implications of digitalisation for measurement, productivity, labour markets and inflation, as well as more recent … lagging behind the United States and Japan. Rising digitalisation has rendered price measurement more challenging, owing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626753
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Virtually everywhere? : digitalisation and the euro area and EU economies : degree, effects, and key issues
Anderton, Bob; Jarvis, Valerie; Labhard, Vincent; … - 2020
Digitalisation can be viewed as a major supply/technology shock affecting macroeconomic aggregates that are important for monetary policy, such as output, productivity, investment, employment and prices. This paper takes stock of developments in the digital economy and their possible impacts...
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Understanding low inflation in the euro area from 2013 to 2019 : cyclical and structural drivers
Koester, Gerrit; Lis, Eliza Magdalena; Nickel, Christiane; … - 2021
From 2013 up to the launch of the ECB’s strategy review in January 2020, inflation in the euro area was low and over …-predicted. This low inflation during the years 2013-19 can be attributed to a combination of interconnected factors. Cyclical … developments account for a substantial share of the fall in underlying inflation, mainly in the first part of the low inflation …
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Real and financial cycles in EU countries : stylised facts and modelling implications
Rünstler, Gerhard (contributor);  … - European System of Central Banks / Working Group on … - 2018
This paper studies the cyclical properties of real GDP, house prices, credit, and nominal liquid financial assets in 17 EU countries, by applying several methods to extract cycles. The estimates confirm earlier findings of large medium-term cycles in credit volumes and house prices. GDP appears...
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Economic structures 20 years into the euro
Consolo, Agostino; Gunnella, Vanessa; Koester, Gerrit; … - 2019
Well-functioning economic structures are key for resilient and prospering euro area economies. The global financial and sovereign debt crises exposed the limited resilience of the euro area’s economic structures. Economic growth was masking underlying weaknesses in several euro area countries....
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Evolution of the ECB's analytical framework
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric; Musso, Alberto; Rodriguez … - 2021
for economic activity and inflation. Furthermore, its focus has strengthened with regard to structural trends in shaping …
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Understanding low wage growth in the euro area and European countries
Nickel, Christiane (ed.); Bobeica, Elena (ed.);  … - 2019
Despite notable improvements in the labour market since 2013, wage growth in the euro area was subdued and substantially overpredicted in 2013-17. This paper summarises the findings of an ESCB expert group on the reasons for low wage growth and provides comparable analyses on wage developments...
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Implications of macroeconomic volatility in the Euro area
Hauzenberger, Niko; Böck, Maximilian; Pfarrhofer, Michael - 2018
In this paper we estimate a Bayesian vector autoregressive model with factor stochastic volatility in the error term to assess the effects of an uncertainty shock in the Euro area. This allows us to treat macroeconomic uncertainty as a latent quantity during estimation. Only a limited number of...
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