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-round integration of two economies. Empirically, such a constellation is found between Australia and New Zealand, whereas diverging … trends in money and interest rates characterise the relation of Australia towards the US. …
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Australien dar. Außerdem wird eine erste Analyse der Erfahrungen vor dem theoretischenHintergrund der Neuen Institutionenökonomik …
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, we account for changes to Australia’s pigmeat quarantinepolicy over time including those changes related to the recent … resolution of a WTO disputebetween Australia and the European Union. Using a random utility model, and applying it tocorner … regimes implemented by Australia during the period 1988-2009. The welfare impact on consumers, producers, and foreign …
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While consumption habits have been utilised as a means of generating a hump shapedoutput response to monetary policy shocks in sticky-price New Keynesian economies,there is relatively little analysis of the impact of habits (particularly, external habits) onoptimal policy. In this paper we...
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In practice, central banks have been confronted with a trade-off between stabilising inflation and output when dealing with rising oil prices. This contrasts with the result in the standard New Keynesian model that ensuring complete price stability is the optimal thing to do, even when an oil...
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In this paper we propose a novel methodology to analyze optimal policies undermodel uncertainty in micro-founded macroeconomic models. As an application weassess the relevant sources of uncertainty for the optimal conduct of monetary policy within (parameter uncertainty) and across models...
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This paper analyzes German and Spanish fiscal policy using simple policy rules. We choose Germany and Spain, as both are Member States in the European Monetary Union (EMU) and underwent considerable increases in public debt in the early 1990s. We focus on the question, how fiscal policy behaves...
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This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able tocredibly commit to preserving monetary stability, and of which consequences theirdecisions had for the efficiency of financial markets. The study reveals that princes were usually only able to commit to issuing a...
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This paper examines whether the existence and the timing of real balance effects contribute to the determination of the absolute price level, as suggested byPatinkin (1949,1965), and if they affect conditions for local equilibrium uniqueness and stability. I show that there exists a unique price...
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Using structural VARs, I find that external shocks are an important source of macroeconomic fluctuations in emerging markets. Furthermore, U.S. monetary policy shocks affect quickly and strongly interest rates and the exchange rate in a typical emerging market. The price level and real output in...
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