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Wide-ranging structural reforms are underway in Italy, aimed at addressing key bottlenecks in the product and labor markets. Our analysis, based on the IMF‘s Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF), attempts to quantify the potential gains to the economy from a comprehensive...
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increase risk premia measured by relative swap spreads. The effect of deficits is significantly lower under EMU. This effect …
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) by specifying an open-economy version of a two-region New Keynesian model for EMU and demonstrate that the result by … EMU and sustainability in the case, prevailing currently, where a high debt country should both restore its …
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Fiscal federalism theory seeks to establish the optimal organization of a government, confined by certain geographic boundaries. The implications of that theory for the monetary unification process are shortly inquired. The literature measuring the redistribution and stabilization effects of the...
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In the discussions on the need for fiscal rules and their usefulness in a monetary union, researchers have not agreed if financial markets have a sufficiently disciplining effect on governments, which would mean that the fiscal rules are not necessary. This paper investigates whether the...
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The EMU fiscal system is specific in many areas compared to other classic fiscal systems of national states. Specific … features mainly reflect in the implementation of economic policy within the EMU which is carried out by combining a common … internal market. Finally, the third segment refers to the fiscal policy coordination of the EMU member states related to …
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We study the evolution of the response of fiscal policy to monetary policy shocks in the EMU in the light of two … important events: the signing of the Maastricht treaty in 1992 and the introduction of the EMU in 1999. Based on impulse … policy acted as complements after the introduction of the EMU. These results holds for a set of 11 non-EMU countries as well …
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This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...
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