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This article investigates the effects of macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal) on output growth during financial crises characterized by a sudden stopʺ in net capital inflows in developing and emerging market economies. We investigate 83 sudden stop crises in 77 countries over 1982-2003...
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consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …
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fiscal policy convergence within the proposed WAM and EAM zones. The introduction of common currencies in West and East … Africa is facing stiff challenges in the timing of monetary convergence, the imperative of central bankers to apply common … panel GMM estimation with data from different non-overlapping intervals is employed. The implied rate of convergence and the …
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This article investigates the effects of macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal) on output growth during financial crises characterized by a sudden stop" in net capital inflows in developing and emerging market economies. We investigate 83 sudden stop crises in 77 countries over 1982-2003...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285311
, called the NATREX. The fundamentals are primarily social consumption/GDP, which is generally driven by fiscal policy, and the … productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime changes in France …
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a decomposition of consumption responses into direct, indirect, average, and cross-sectional effects. We show that the …
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We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth everywhere. In the short run, a country with a...
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An assessment is presented of whether Greece's current plight is a harbinger of similar adverse conditions likely to directly impact the United States in the intermediate- to long-term future.Long-term deficits projected for 2020 and beyond, under the assumption that the economy is in full...
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Der Beitrag analysiert die inner-europäischen Leistungsbilanzungleichgewichte auf der Grundlage der Theorie der optimalen Währungsräume. Wir zeigen, dass die deutsche Wiedervereinigung nicht nur zur EWS-Krise 1992/93 führte, sondern auch der Ursprung der derzeitigen europäischen...
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In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...
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