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We examine how borrowing constraints affect monetary transmission and the trade-off of a welfare maximizing central bank. We develop a sticky price model where money serves as the means of payment and ex-ante identical agents borrow/lend among each other. The credit market is distorted as...
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Austerity measures are frequently enacted when the sustainability of public finances is in doubt. Such doubts are reflected in high sovereign yield spreads and put further strain on government finances. Is austerity successful in restoring market confidence, bringing about a reduction in yield...
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We provide a systematic analysis of fiscal consolidation in a dynamic general equilibrium model with a detailed government sector and a share of credit-constrained households. We simulate permanent cuts in government consumption, government investment, and transfer payments as well as permanent...
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We investigate the political determinants of risk premiums which sub-national governments in Switzerland have to pay for their sovereign bond emissions. For this purpose we make use of financial market data from 288 tradable cantonal bonds in the period from 1981 to 2007. Our main focus is on...
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getrieben wird. Die Vermutung liegt nahe, daß diese zwei Faktoren die nationale Geldpolitik und der internationale … werden die Auswirkungen einer Geldpolitik analysiert, die auf Veränderungen der Zinsstruktur reagiert und "leaning against … the wind" betreibt. Es kann gezeigt werden, daß eine Politik der Reaktion der Zentralbank auf die Zinsspanne bzw. auf …
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