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Monetary-fiscal policy interactions in the euro area

2021

The last review of the ECB’s monetary policy strategy in 2003 followed a period of predominantly upside risks to price stability. Experience following the 2008 financial crisis has focused renewed attention on the question of how monetary and fiscal policy should best interact, in particular...

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Labour tax reforms, cross-country coordination and the monetary policy stance in the euro area : a structural model-based approach

Jacquinot, Pascal; Lozej, Matija; Pisani, Massimiliano - 2018

We evaluate the effects of permanently reducing labour tax rates in the euro area (EA) by simulating a large-scale open economy dynamic general equilibrium model. The model features the EA as a monetary union, split in two regions (Home and the rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the...

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Long-term Instability of A Monetary Union

Cheng, TJ - 2020

When a monetary union member (a small open economy) borrows and lends with other union members and only has access to conventional debt instruments, its optimal fiscal police is time inconsistent because its governments are short of policy instruments to render optimal fiscal policy time...

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The Economic Case for Monetary Union in the European Union

Buiter, Willem H. - 1997

Differential requirements for seigniorage provide a weak case for retaining monetary independence. As regards adjustment to asymmetric shocks, nominal exchange rate flexibility is at best a limited blessing and at worst a limited curse. Absence of significant fiscal redistribution mechanisms...

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Macroeconomic Stabilisation in the Emu : Rules Versus Institutions

Cavallari, Lilia; Di Gioacchino, Debora - 2004

This paper investigates the macroeconomic implications of different regimes of international fiscal coordination and monetary-fiscal cooperation in a monetary union with independent fiscal authorities that act strategically vis a vis a common central bank. In the presence of other policy goals...

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Effective European Monetary Union in the Light of the Optimum Currency Area; Model Countries : Germany and Poland Ergin Akalpler

Akalpler, Ergin - 2022

the Eurozone.Design/methodology/approach: In this study, Breusch–Pagan–Godfrey and Lagrange multiplier (LM) tests are used … research is used for estimating the effects of OCA in the Eurozone. Quantitative investigation is particularly focused on the … Eurozone and the application of a single currency throughout the EU was a considerably difficult task. In addition, the …

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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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Budget-neutral fiscal rules targeting inflation differentials

Brede, Maren - 2016

In light of persistent in ation dispersion and rising debt levels in the EMU, this paper investigates the welfare implications of budget-neutral scal policies that counteract in ation di erentials. In a two-country DSGE model of a monetary union with traded and non-traded goods a national scal...

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Which is the optimal fiscal rule in a monetary union? : targeting the structural, the global budgetary deficit, or the public debt?

Menguy, Séverine - In: Cogent economics & finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-20

The aim of our paper is to contribute to the debate on optimal fiscal rules in a monetary union: in terms of global budgetary deficit, of structural budgetary deficit, or of public debt. Indeed, these rules seem to be mixed in the framework of the European Economic and Monetary Union, with the...

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Public and private risk sharing : friends or foes : the interplay between different forms of risk sharing

Giovannini, Alessandro; Ioannou, Demosthenes; Stracca, Livio - 2022

Well-functioning risk-sharing arrangements are essential for the shock absorbing capacity and resilience of an economy, even more so for countries in a monetary union where the single monetary policy is unable to address asymmetric shocks. The common shocks that euro area member states have been...

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