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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...
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The recent financial and economic crisis has triggered bold and diverse policy responses to prevent further, sharper and prolonged adverse effects to the financial and the real sector. The measures for alleviating the cycle were a feature both of the advanced and the emerging and developing...
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current crisis is the European Monetary Union (EMU) - a monetary union lacking fiscal and political integration. Such partial …
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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...
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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...
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
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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
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 …
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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...
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Macroeconometric policy simulation models allow for an analysis, and, above all, for a quantification of the effects different economic policies have on the various variables that represent the economy. Despite the seminal "Lucas critique" levelled against them, these models are still widely...
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