Die Finanzmarkt- und Staatsschuldenkrise hat zu verschiedenen Kriseninterventionen geführt. Fiskalisch wurde im Rahmen des Europäischen Finanzstabilisierungsmechanismus (EFSM) eine Zweckgesellschaft zur Finanzierung insolventnaher Euro-Mitgliedstaaten gegründet, für die die Einzelstaaten mit...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic challenges created by a surge in aid inflows. It develops an analytical framework for examining possible policy responses to increased aid, in terms of absorption and spending of aid - where the central bank controls absorption through monetary policy...

A windfall of natural resource revenue (or foreign aid) faces government with choices of how to manage public debt, investment, and the distribution of funds for consumption, particularly if the windfall is both anticipated and temporary. We show that the permanent income hypothesis prescription...

This study assesses the fiscal and monetary management challenges that can be associated with large inflows of foreign aid. It provides a brief overview of the literature on Dutch Disease (DD) as applied to mineral wealth and then assesses the conventional policy responses that are available to...

This paper presents a two-country two-commodity dynamic model with free international asset trade in which one country achieves full employment and the other suffers long-run unemployment. Own and spill-over effects of changes in policy, technological and preference parameters that emerge...