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Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …
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In this study, we will perform a simulation exercise to investigate whether the use of explicit fiscal rules improves the macroeconomic performance in the economic framework of the European Union (EU), where the fall in income levels occurred very asymmetrically, and this has accentuated the...
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This paper studies the process of business cycle synchronization in the European Union and the euro area. As our … in the core and peripheral members of the euro area. Our analysis of quarterly data covering the first two decades of the … euro area shows that there was a certain synchronization tendency in the first years of the common currency. However, the …
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In the years since the Great Recession, many observers have highlighted the slow pace of productivity growth around the world. For the United States and Europe, we highlight that this slow pace began prior to the Great Recession. The timing thus suggests that it is important to consider factors...
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This paper investigates the extent to which business cycles of 15 ECOWAS countries are synchronized; which is one of … GSLIM) business cycles are dissimilar to the rest of the ECOWAS. These four countries count only three percent of total …
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Euro area sovereign debt crisis …
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This paper investigates the role of fiscal policies over the aggregate EMU business cycle. Previous studies, based on the assumption of non-separability between public and private consumption, obtain a large public consumption multiplier, a small fraction of non-Ricardian households and,...
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We estimate government spending multipliers in demand- and supply-driven recessions for the Euro Area. Multipliers in a … moderately demand-driven recession are 2-3 times larger than in a moderately supply-driven recession, with the difference between … from -0.5 in supply-driven recessions to about 2 in demand-driven recessions. The econometric approach leverages a …
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We estimate government spending multipliers in demand- and supply-driven recessions for the Euro Area. Multipliers in a … moderately demand-driven recession are 2-3 times larger than in a moderately supply-driven recession, with the difference between … from -0.5 in supply-driven recessions to about 2 in demand-driven recessions. The econometric approach leverages a factor …
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