This study is a collection of essays on monetary-fiscal interactions within the European Monetary Union (EMU). Our research focuses on a theoretical evaluation of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) and its huge reform debate. The topics chosen are not on the top economists' agenda because the...

This thesis was written by Jakob Eberl while having been a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2015 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2016. The...

This dissertation studies the effects of fiscal policy and the challenges due to government debt. The first part of the work consists of an analysis of fiscal policy and government debt in theoretical models. We show in Chapter 2, how the public debt structure, split into internal and external...

The transmission of monetary and fiscal policies in an international context is one of the most prominent topics in the realm of international finance. In particular, researchers are interested in the effects of the respective policy on exchange rate movements, international price level...

Since the 1960s, the field of open economy macroeconomics has been largely dominated by the Mundell-Fleming model and its perfect-foresight extension of Dornbusch (1976). When dealing with classical issues of international macroeconomics, including for instance the international transmission of...

This dissertation is a collection of essays with the main objective of estimate and understand macroeconomic behavior of emerging countries by the lenses of modern tools in general equilibrium modeling. In the first chapter, I study whether structural parameters of Small Open Economy Real...

This dissertation computes the optimal monetary and fiscal policy for small open and emerging economies in an estimated medium-scale model. The model departs from the conventional approach as it encompasses all the major nominal and real rigidities normally found in the literature in a single...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit beschäftige ich mich mit der theoretischen Analyse von Geld- und Fiskalpolitik in Currency-Board-Systemen und der Währungsunion. Beide Währungssysteme haben seit den neunziger Jahren zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen, Currency Boards durch die Rückgewinnung der...

Es ist noch immer nicht endgültig geklärt, wie fiskalische Dezentralisierung die Höhe und Struktur der öffentlichen Ausgaben beeinflusst. Diese Dissertation analysiert daher zwei zusammenhängende Fragen. Erstens werden die Auswirkungen der fiskalischen Dezentralisierung auf die...