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Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … impact of political shocks on the domestic economy of member states but magnified the transmission of political shocks within …
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Monetary developments of recent decades began with much promise with inflation targeting by independent central banks; the financial crisis of 2007 ushered in a period of great monetary instability. There are lessons for a return to more stability. Central banks need to stabilize money supply...
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exceptional negative shocks in combination with a too weak capacity of the economy to improve its cost competitiveness in the …
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indicates that QE as defined and announced in March 2009 had no apparent effect on the UK economy. Meanwhile, it is found that a …
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emerged as the second biggest economy in the world. In this study, we seek to illuminate the role of the monetary policy in … China differs substantially from what is typical for an advanced market economy, where an independent central bank often … that China's monetary-policy implementation and its transmission to the real economy still rely heavily on quantitative …
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Vietnam has been following China's path closely and very successfully for the last two decades, since the adoption of … the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper addresses this question with regard to Vietnam, who joined the WTO at the … beginning of 2007: we study Vietnam's potential for sustainable growth and international integration. We start by briefly …
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We investigate the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy using a Bayesian Structural Vector Autoregression approach. We build on a recursive identification scheme, but we: (i) include the feedback from government debt (ii); look at the impact on the composition of output; (iii) assess the...
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We investigate the impact of Chinese activities in sub-Saharan African countries with respect to the growth performance of economies in that region. Using a Solow-type growth model and panel data for the period 1991 to 2011, we find that African economies that export natural resources have...
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This thesis consists of four essays in empirical macroeconomics. The first three essays examine the conduct of monetary policy during a disinflationary and deflationary era, with the policy interest rates close to or at the zero bound.The questions of interest include the potency of the interest...
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