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Is fiscal policy coordination in EMU desirable?
Beetsma, Roel; Debrun, Xavier; Klaassen, Franc - 2001
It is widely argued that Europe's unified monetary policy calls for the international coordination at the fiscal level. We survey the issues involved with such coordination of fiscal policy as a demand management tool and we use a simple model to investigate the circumstances under which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400878
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The European Central Bank and why things are the way they are : a historic monetary policy pivot point and moment of (relative) clarity
Dubois, Robert - 2012
current crisis is the European Monetary Union (EMU) - a monetary union lacking fiscal and political integration. Such partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503821
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Monetary and fiscal policy in monetary union under the zero lower bound constraint
Flotho, Stefanie - 2012
This paper explicitly models strategic interaction between two independent national fiscal authorities and a single central bank in a simple New Keynesian model of a monetary union. Monetary policy is constrained by the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Coordination of fiscal policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009560040
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Fiscal Histories
Cochrane, John H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of real primary surpluses. Monetary policy remains important. The central bank can set an interest rate target, which determines the path of expected inflation, while news about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361983
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Staying together or breaking apart : policy-makers endogenous coalitions formation in the European economic and monetary union
Aarle, Bas van; Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Engwerda, … - 2002
In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410410
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Staying together or breaking apart : policy-makers' endogenous coalitions formation in the European Economic and Monetary Union
Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Engwerda, Jacob Christiaan; … - 2002
In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597642
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Economic policy coordination in the EMU : how much scope will there be within the framework of the stability and growth pact?
Breuss, Fritz; Weber, Andrea - 1999
for 10 EMU countries and for the ECB. The gains from cooperation are calculated by comparing two equilibria, a Nash and a … as a whole with the targets output gap and inflation. In the case of a "full" cooperation, where the 10 EMU countries … manoeuvre of fiscal policy of the EMU member states in stage III of EMU. Secondly, we find that not in all countries cooperation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491576
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Germany's post-2000 stagnation in the European context - a lesson in macroeconomic mismanagement
Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2006
In the present paper we question the mainstream diagnosis of Germany's post-2000 stagnation as well as the prescribed remedies. We show that the "institutional sclerosis" view of Germany's stagnation is unfounded and that therefore the political measures proposed and actually taken are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003744530
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A promised value approach to optimal monetary policy
Hills, Timothy S.; Nakata, Taisuke; Sunakawa, Takeki - 2018 - This draft: August 2018
This paper characterizes optimal commitment policy in the New Keynesian model using a novel recursive formulation of the central bank's infinite horizon optimization problem. In our recursive formulation motivated by Kydland and Prescott (1980), promised inflation and output gap---as opposed to...
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Optimal inflation target with expectations-driven liquidity traps
Coyle, Philip; Nakata, Taisuke - 2019 - This draft: April 2019
In expectations-driven liquidity traps, a higher inflation target is associated with lower inflation and consumption. As a result, introducing the possibility of expectations-driven liquidity traps to an otherwise standard model lowers the optimal inflation target. Using a calibrated New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181161