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A quarterly fiscal database for the euro area based on intra-annual fiscal information

Paredes, Joan; Pedregal, Diego J.; Pérez, Javier J. - 2009

The analysis of the macroeconomic impact of fiscal policies in the euro area has been traditionally limited by the absence of quarterly fiscal data. To overcome this problem, we provide two new databases in this paper. Firstly, we construct a quarterly database of euro area fiscal variables for...

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Evaluation of Blending : Final Report ; Volume I – Main Report

Clerckx, Edwin (contributor); Buhl-Nielsen, Eric (contributor) - Aide à la Décision Economique - 2016

This evaluation of blending as an EU aid delivery mechanism aims to: provide an overall and independent assessment of blending. identify key lessons and recommendations to improve and inform future choices on blending. The scope includes EuropeAid support through seven investment facilities over...

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EU fiscal rules

Schuknecht, Ludger - 2004

The paper analyses the EU fiscal rules from a political economy perspective and derives some policy lessons. Following a literature survey, the paper stresses the importance of appropriate incentives for rule compliance in an environment where national fiscal sovereignty precludes the option of...

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Major public debt reductions

Nickel, Christiane; Rother, Philipp; Zimmermann, Lilli - 2010

of GDP. We estimate several specifications of a logistic probability model. Our findings suggest that, first, major debt …

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Market power and fiscal policy in OECD countries

Afonso, António; Costa, Luís F. - 2010

We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...

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Is there a signalling role for public wages?

Pérez, Javier J.; Sánchez, A. Jesús - 2010

Do public sector wages exert pressures on private sector wages, or has the private sector a leadership role in wage setting? This paper tries to isolate the pure signalling effect that one sector might exert on the other by controlling for other determinants of wages (prices, productivity,...

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Asymmetric dynamics in the correlations of global equity and bond returns

Cappiello, Lorenzo; Engle, Robert F.; Sheppard, Kevin - 2003

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Identifying the global transmission of the 2007 - 09 financial crisis in a GVAR Model

Chudik, Alexander; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2011

The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite played for the global transmission of the financial crisis. Dealing with identification and the large dimensionality of the empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the...

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Liquidity requirements and payment delays

Schulz, Christian - 2011

The paper presents an analysis of the trade-offs of participants of different type between payment delay and liquidity requirement on the basis of synthetically generated data. The generation of the synthetic transaction data set for a simple RTGS system is described and calibrated using real...

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Involuntary unemployment and the business cycle

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Trabandt, Mathias; Walentin, Karl - 2010

We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people … model has the property that people searching for jobs are better off if they find a job than if they do not (i ….e., unemployment is ‘involuntary’). We integrate our model of involuntary unemployment into the simple New Keynesian framework with no …

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