This paper investigates how government bond purchases affect leverage-constrained banks and non-financial firms by utilising a stochastic general equilibrium model. My results indicate that government bond purchases not only reduce non-financial firms' borrowing costs, amplified through a...

We study the impact of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy on the low-frequency relationship between the fiscal stance and inflation using crosscountry data from 1965 to 1999. In a first step, we contrast the monetary-fiscal narrative for Germany, the U.S. and Italy with evidence...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die vom Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung in einem Gutachten vorgeschlagene ökologische Steuerreform einer kritischen Würdigung unterzogen. Die Untersuchung richtet sich zunächst auf das der positiven Analyse zugrundeliegende methodische Vorgehen und...

This paper investigates the macroeconomic and welfare effects of an anticipated future switch from destination- to origin-based commodity taxation. We set up an intertemporal representative agent model of an open economy and study especially consumption, investment and trade balance responses to...