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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks
Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004
the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636531
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Methodological advances in the assessment of equilibrium exchange rates
Bussière, Matthieu; Ca'Zorzi, Michele; Chudík, Alexander - 2010
This paper reviews three different concepts of equilibrium exchange rates that are widely used in policy analysis and constitute the backbone of the IMF CGER assessment: the Macroeconomic Balance, the External Sustainability and the reduced form approaches. We raise a number of econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970419
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Current account benchmarks for central and eastern Europe : a desperate search?
Chudik, Alexander; Dieppe, Alistair - 2009
This paper examines two competing approaches for calculating current account benchmarks, i.e. the external sustainability approach á la Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (LM) versus the structural current accounts literature (SCA) based on panel econometric techniques. The aim is to gauge the medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826590
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Internal devaluation in currency unions : the role of trade costs and taxes
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2017
This paper studies export adjustment to negative shocks in currency unions. I consider the hitherto ignored role of trade costs and taxes in internal devaluations, which have been brought to the fore of international policy during the recent euro periphery crisis. Trade costs can limit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639619
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The asymmetric adjustment of global imbalances : myth or fact?
Dausà, Neus; Stracca, Livio - 2023
We revisit the so-called "secular international problem", whereby the adjustment of current account imbalances purportedly falls entirely on the shoulders of deficit countries. We introduce a stylised model to rationalise an asymmetric counter-cyclical policy reaction that is stronger for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013552616
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Budgetary and external imbalances relationship : a panel data diagnostic
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2008
We assess the cointegration relationship between current account and budget balances, and effective real exchange rates, using recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and SUR methods. We investigate the magnitude of the relationship between the two imbalances for each country for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803327
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Fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt
Broner, Fernando; Clancy, Daragh; Erce, Aitor; Martin, … - 2019
This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out effects if the resources used to acquire public debt reduce domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994640
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Time-consistent monetary policy, terms of trade manipulation and welfare in open economies
Schmidt, Sebastian - 2018
A key insight from the open economy literature is that domestic price stability is in general not optimal for countries that exert some market power over their terms of trade. Under commitment, a national benevolent monetary policymaker improves upon the allocation associated with stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011792170
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The current account and monetary policy in the euro area
Schuler, Tobias; Sun, Yiqiao - 2022
and productivity shocks cause both the current account balance and interest rate to move in the same direction. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013329445
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Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing
Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003
to shocks. We use a stylised two-bloc, two-period model of the global economy, with a simple stochastic productivity … shock affecting only one country. Efficient global risk-sharing imply that expected productivity gains in one country will … for the productivity gains can further increase the risk exposure of foreign shareholders. The model is calibrated to show …
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