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Strengthening potential output is high on the agenda for economic policy in the European Union. While there is widespread agreement that structural policies have a positive impact on long-term growth, there is a controversial discussion whether coordination of macroeconomic policies can...
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There is no consensus about the causes of the reduction in business cycle volatility seen in many major economies over the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by...
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This paper analyses the impact of asymmetric preferences with respect to inflation and output by policymakers on interest-rate reaction functions and test for their existence. A modified New Keynesian framework which makes it possible to identify the dominant type of asymmetry is developed and...
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We theoretically explore long-run stagnation at the zero lower bound in a representative agent framework. We … analytically compare expectations-driven stagnation to a secular stagnation episode and find contrasting policy implications for … expansionary and robust to the source of stagnation. Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a DSGE model that can accommodate two …
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