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The Gini Trade Index: What can we learn from a new trade indicator?
Cernat, Lucian - 2024
This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560170
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Dancing together at arm’s length? – The interaction of central banks with governments in the G7
Bodea, Cristina; Huemer, Stefan - 2010
-making function, i.e. the ECB and the central banks of the four G7 countries outside the euro area (the US, UK, Japan and Canada). The … Canada in areas such as monetary policy and its interlink with economic policy; foreign exchange operations and foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606272
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Inflation persistence and price-setting behaviour in the euro area – a summary of the IPN evidence
Altissimo, Filippo; Ehrmann, Michael; Smets, Frank - 2006
This paper provides a summary of current knowledge on inflation persistence and price stickiness in the euro area, based on research findings that have been produced in the context of the Inflation Persistence Network. The main findings are - i) Under the current monetary policy regime, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606198
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Structural features of distributive trades and their impact on prices in the euro area
2011
The distributive trades sector, which is primarily accounted for by wholesale and retail trade, is not only economically important in its own right, but also relevant to monetary policy. Ultimately, it is retailers who set the actual prices of most consumer goods. They are the main interface...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606280
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Fiscal policy in the EU in the crisis: A model-based approach
Székely, István P.; Roeger, Werner; Veld, Jan in 't - 2011
This paper uses a multi region DSGE model with collateral constrained households and residential investment to examine the effectiveness of fiscal policy stimulus measures in a credit crisis. The paper explores alternative scenarios which differ by the type of budgetary measure, its length, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430871
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Warum die Volkswirtschaften der Eurozone den USA und Großbritannien seit der Finanzkrise hinterherhinken: Zur Rolle von Unterschieden in der Geld- und Fiskalpolitik
Heimberger, Philipp - 2016
Wirtschaftsräume wird in zwei Dimensionen analysiert; zum einen anhand eines Überblicks zur Geldpolitik der EZB nach dem Ausbruch der … Wachstum und Beschäftigung, was die Eurozonenwirtschaft im Zusammenspiel mit der über weite Strecken zögerlichen Geldpolitik … prozyklische, krisenverstärkende Fiskalpolitik befördert. Die EZB ist mit ihrer seit Anfang 2015 betriebenen Geldpolitik des …
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Implications of Globalization for Monetary Policy
Wagner, Helmut - 2002
This paper argues that the implications of globalization for monetary policy come mainly through two channels: On the one hand, the many structural changes, which are associated with the globalization process, cause an increase in uncertainty surrounding monetary policy. This leads to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689901
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On the stance of macroprudential policy
Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Suárez, Javier - 2021
In this report we outline how a formulating normative measure of macroprudential policy stance requires a framework containing objectives, tools and transmission mechanisms. To complement the currently prevailing narrative approach, we apply lessons from the monetary policy to macroprudential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327917
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Electricity Use as an Indicator of U.S. Economic Activity
Arora, Vipin; Lieskovsky, Jozef - 2016
We argue for the resurrection of an old idea: electricity use as an indicator of U.S. economic activity. Our analysis relies on associations–the 40-year correlation between growth rates in real GDP and electricity use can be as high as 89% –and intuition. Electricity use and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416254
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The ECB and IMF indicators for the macro-prudential analysis of the banking sector: a comparison of the two approaches
Agresti, Anna Maria; Baudino, Patrizia; Poloni, Paolo - 2008
In January 2007 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published, on an ad hoc basis, a series of financial soundness indicators (FSIs) based on a common methodology (the IMF compilation Guide) for 62 countries, including all 27 European Union countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), jointly...
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