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Economic growth and budgetary components : a panel assessment for the EU
Afonso, António (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we test whether a reallocation of government budget items can enhance long-term GDP growth in a set of European countries. We apply modern panel data techniques to the period 1970-2006, and we use three alternative dependent variables in a growth regression: economic growth, total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636014
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Government size, composition, volatility and economic growth
Afonso, António (contributor); Furceri, Davide (contributor) - 2008
and EU countries. The results of the paper suggest that both variables are detrimental to growth. In particular, looking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636033
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Markups in the euro area and the US over the period 1981-2004 : a comparison of 50 sectors
Christopoulou, Rebekka (contributor);  … - 2008
US over the period 1981-2004. The estimates are obtained applying the methodology developed by Roeger (1995) on the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636104
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International transmission and monetary policy cooperation
Coenen, Günter; Lombardo, Giovanni; Smets, Frank; … - 2008
We use a version of the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM) developed at the ECB in order to quantify the gains from monetary policy cooperation. The model is calibrated in order to match a set of empirical moments. We then derive the cooperative and (open-loop) Nash monetary policies, assuming that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636288
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? : new empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus (contributor); Čihák, Martin (contributor) - 2008
A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789457
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Fiscal consolidation in the euro area : long-run benefits and short-run costs
Coenen, Günter (contributor); Mohr, Matthias (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper, we examine the macroeconomic effects of alternative fiscal consolidation policies in the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM), a two-country open-economy model of the euro area developed at the European Central Bank (cf. Coenen et al., 2007). We model fiscal consolidation as a permanent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778833
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Fiscal and monetary policy in the enlarged European Union (forthcoming)
Pogorelec, Sabina (contributor) - 2006
I build a quantitative two-country DSGE model of the European Union (EU) and investigate whether there are welfare … gains from fiscal policy cooperation between the new EU members and the euro area (EMU). Fiscal cooperation is defined in … firms in the new EU countries. When there is no foreign ownership in the new EU countries, the euro area is indifferent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358603
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Fiscal policy in a monetary economy with capital and finite lifetime
Annicchiarico, Barbara (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, capital accumulation and finite lifetimes. The framework exhibits intergenerational wealth effects and is intended to investigate the macroeconomic implications of fiscal policy, which is specified by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358633
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The behaviour of the real exchange rate : evidence from regression quantiles
Nikolaou, Kleopatra (contributor) - 2006
We test for mean reversion in real exchange rates using a recently developed unit root test for non-normal processes based on quantile autoregression inference in semi-parametric and non-parametric settings. The quantile regression approach allows us to directly capture the impact of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358655
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Forecasting economic aggregates by disaggregates
Hendry, David F. (contributor); Hubrich, Kirstin (contributor) - 2006
We suggest an alternative use of disaggregate information to forecast the aggregate variable of interest, that is to include disaggregate information or disaggregate variables in the aggregate model as opposed to first forecasting the disaggregate variables separately and then aggregating those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280663