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account deficits and investment rises. Fourth, the strength of the relative price appreciation following sector productivity …
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Countries which share a common currency potentially have strong incentives to share macroeconomic risks through a system of transfers to compensate for the loss of national monetary policy. However, the option to leave the currency union and regain national monetary policy can place severe...
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This study incorporates international firm mobility into a new open economy macroeconomic model to analyze the question of how allowing for the international relocation of firms affects the impact of government spending shock on consumption and exchange rate. The study shows that the government...
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In this paper, we argue that the effect of monetary and fiscal policies on the exchange rate depends on the fiscal regime. A contractionary monetary (expansionary fiscal) shock can lead to a depreciation, rather than an appreciation, of the domestic currency if debt is not backed by future...
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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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that productivity shocks alone generate significant variation in inflation across the two countries. Government spending … that smaller countries experience higher variability of their inflation differential in response to shocks to productivity … productivity growth by letting the income tax rate respond negatively to inflation differentials …
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This study revisits and tests empirically the Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI), which analyzes how the effectiveness … (Bossone, The portfolio theory of inflation and policy (in)effectiveness, 2019). The PTI shows that when an economy is heavily … and policies aimed to stimulate output growth dissipate into domestic currency depreciation and higher inflation, with …
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across countries due to consumption home bias; thus fiscal policy influences inflation and the terms of trade. Prices are …
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The paper re-investigates the effects of government spending shocks on the real exchange rate and inflation, using US …
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productivity of the economy. Trends in social consumption/GDP, and in fiscal policy, reflected political regime changes in France …
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