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The European Commission's new NAIRU : does it deliver?
Gechert, Sebastian; Rietzler, Katja; Tober, Silke - 2014
The NAIRU is a key component of potential output and as such critically affects output gap estimates. In May 2014, the … European Commission changed its specification of the NAIRU for several countries and lowered its NAIRU estimates - in the case … of Spain from 26.6% to 20.7% for 2015. To test the dependence of the new NAIRU on unemployment versus structural factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458229
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The Challenge of Debt Reduction During Fiscal Consolidation
Eyraud, Luc - 2013
Studies suggest that fiscal multipliers are currently high in many advanced economies. One important implication is that fiscal tightening could raise the debt ratio in the short term, as fiscal gains are partly wiped out by the decline in output. Although this effect is not long-lasting and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084149
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Optimal Level of Government Debt : Matching Wealth Inequality and the Fiscal Sector
Vogel, Edgar - 2014
We calibrate an incomplete markets large scale OLG model to the US income and wealth distribution and examine the effects of alternative government debt levels and adjustment policies on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. We find that the government should hold negative debt. Due to the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047686
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States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy: Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Risk Perspectives
Balling, Morten; Egger, Peter; Gnan, Ernest; Weber, Axel A. - 2013
On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689958
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States, banks, and the financing of the economy : fiscal policy and sovereign risk perspectives
Balling, Morten (ed., introduction) - Colloquium "States, Banks and the Financing of the …; … - 2013
On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium "States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy" at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711625
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States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy: Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Risk Perspectives
Egger, Peter H.; Afonso, Antonio; Jalles, Joao Tovar; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum
On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011070908
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Budgetary Policy and Unemployment Dynamics
von Thadden, Leopold; Kaas, Leo - 2001
We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295705
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Public debt places no burden on future generations under demand shortage
Ogawa, Takayuki; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2010
In a Diamond-type overlapping-generations setting public debt issuance places no burden on future generations including those who repay the debt if prices and wages are fixed and unemployment occurs in the periods in which public bonds are issued and repaid. Whether the collected fund is spent...
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Budgetary policy and unemployment dynamics
Kaas, Leo; Thadden, Leopold von - 2001
We consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with collective wage bargaining and investigate how unemployment dynamics are affected by two types of budgetary policies. In line with traditional reasoning, a balanced-budget rule amplifies fluctuations in the short run, whereas an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419352
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The burden of unanticipated government spending
Heer, Burkhard; Scharrer, Christian - 2016
We study the impact of a government spending shock on the distribution of income and wealth between cohorts in a dynamic stochastic Overlapping Generations model with two types of households, Ricardian households and rule-of-thumb consumers. We demonstrate that an unexpected increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458011