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Accommodative monetary policy during the financial crisis was instrumental in preventing a deeper recession. Views differ, however, on how long such measures should be kept in place. At the heart of this debate is the notion that a protracted period of policy accommodation could create...
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public and private debts. A subtle type of debt restructuring takes the form of 'financial repression.' Financial repression … interest rates, regulation of cross-border capital movements, and (generally) a tighter connection between government and banks … rapid reduction in public debt/GDP ratios from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Low nominal interest rates help reduce debt …
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As austerity policies are unpopular with voters and high levels of debt are a drag on growth a number of economists … the debt trap. We maintain that an exit from financial repression-like policies is the better alternative to promote …
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public and private debts. A subtle type of debt restructuring takes the form of "financial repression." Financial repression … interest rates, regulation of cross-border capital movements, and (generally) a tighter connection between government and banks … facilitated a sharp and rapid reduction in public debt/GDP ratios from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Low nominal interest rates …
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Emerging market economies, which have much of their growth ahead of them, either run or should run persistent current account deficits in order to smooth consumption intertemporally. The counterpart of these deficits is their dependence on capital inflows, which can suddenly stop. We make two...
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on euro area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other …-output linkages, affecting both trade and inflation; (2) inflation can be higher under sector-specific labor shortages relative to a … domestic aggregate demand shocks in explaining euro area inflation over 2020-21; and (4) international trade did not respond to …
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We estimate a multi-country, multi-sector New Keynesian model to quantify the drivers of domestic inflation during 2020 …-23 in several countries, including the United States. The model matches observed inflation together with sector-level prices … and wages. We further measure the relative importance of different types of shocks on inflation across countries over time …
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We introduce external risks, in the form of shocks to the level and volatility of world interest rates, into a small open economy model subject to the risk of sudden stops—large recessions together with abrupt reversals in capital inflows| and characterize optimal macroprudential policy in...
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We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on euro area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other …-output linkages, affecting both trade and inflation; (2) inflation can be higher under sector-specific labor shortages relative to a … domestic aggregate demand shocks in explaining euro area inflation over 2020–21; and (4) international trade did not respond to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080916
The authors review the challenges that the Romanian economy and society had to face in the European and global geoeconomic context. Starting from the perspectives advanced by the international economic fora, the risks the European economy will have to answer through counteracting and general...
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