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place to maintain economic stability in Europe, and has unveiled the difficulty in achieving international coordination on …
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This paper surveys the recent literature on the theory of macroeconomic policy. We study the effect of various incentive constraints on the policy making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and divided government. The survey is organized in three...
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This chapter surveys the recent literature on the theory of macroeconomic policy. We study the effect of various incentive constraints on the policy making process, such as lack of credibility, political opportunism, political ideology, and divided government. The survey is organized in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024218
dialed up or down, depending on the economy's state. Lock-in policy is illustrated by the euro, globalization, and the …
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illustrated with examples that include tax policy, government spending, the euro, globalization, and the neoliberal policy …
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between fiscal and monetary dominance early in the euro crisis (Buiter 2010, drawing on Sargent and Wallace 1981). This paper … for dominance, political fragmentation of the euro area prevented such bargains during the crisis. Strategic behavior … crises and continues to play out as the euro area seeks to complete the architecture of the monetary union. Deflation …
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complement—a digital euro—becomes increasingly necessary. Accordingly, the article concludes that the ECB is both entitled and … obliged de lege lata to issue a digital euro on the basis of Article 128 TFEU. It further explains that neither tangible cash … nor a digital euro can simultaneously be used as instruments in themselves to maintain price stability …
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Recent research has found that the dynamic properties of the New Keynesian model can be very different when the nominal interest rate is zero. Improvements in technology and reductions in the labor tax rate lower economic activity, and the size of the government purchase output multiplier can be...
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This paper contributes to the policy evaluation literature by developing new strategies to study alternative policy rules. We compare optimal rules to simple rules within canonical monetary policy models. In our context, an optimal rule represents the solution to an intertemporal optimization...
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Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
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