It is widely recognised that fiscal policy will have greater responsibilities for cyclical stabilisation in the EMU, given the loss of the monetary instrument at national level.At the same time, the EMU's budgetary framework emphasises the need to rely on automatic fiscal stabilisers, rather...

This paper uses a multi region DSGE model with collateral constrained households and residential investment to examine the effectiveness of fiscal policy stimulus measures in a credit crisis. The paper explores alternative scenarios which differ by the type of budgetary measure, its length, the...

We estimate a three-country model using 1995 2013 data for Germany, the Rest of the Euro Area (REA) and the Rest of the World (ROW) to analyse the determinants of Germany s current account (CA) surplus after the launch of the euro. Our results suggest that the German surplus reflects a...

Productivity-enhancing structural reforms are crucial to the economic prospects of the EU. Indeed, such reforms are even more urgent in the current environment in which many economies are reaching the limits of the policy support they can provide to shore up demand. Moreover, even as some of the...

Suomen taloudellista tilannetta luonnehtivat tällä hetkellä monet luottokriiseille ominaiset tekijät kuten osakkeiden hintojen ja varallisuusarvojen romahtaminen, korkotason tuntuva nousu, pankkien vakavaraisuusongelmat sekä yritysten ja kotitalouksien korkea velkaantuneisuus. Tässä...

Markan devalvoitumisen vaikutukset talouden rahoituskustannuksiin ovat nyt selvästi suuremmat kuin aikaisempien devalvaatioiden yhteydessa. Tämä johtuu ensinnäkin siitä, että ulkomaisen velan määrä suhteessa bruttokansantuotteeseen ja vientiin on tällä hetkellä huomattavasti aiempaa...

In Finland the private sector borrowing started to rise rapidly in conjunction with the liberalization of capital movements and deregulation of the domestic financial sector during the second half of the 1980s. The financial deregulation coincided with and amplified an economic boom marked by...

This paper presents a simple intertemporal model for the determination of corporate investment when the required rate on debt financing depends on the financial risk involved. When the actual lending rate does not fully reflect the financial risk, the balance sheet position of firms affects...

The paper presents a theoretical model of private consumption that emcompasses both the conventional (Keynesian) view of fiscal policy and the Ricardian debt neutrality hypothesis.The effects of fiscal policy on private consumption are analyzed in an extended framework built on Blanchard's...

This paper considers the effects of fiscal policy on private consumption in a framework that encompasses both the conventional (Keynesian) view of fiscal policy and the Ricardian debt neutrality hypothesis.The model is built on Blanchard's stochastic model of intertemporal optimization with...