Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account surplus, but would also raise output over the longer-run as well as generate beneficial regional...

The impact of monetary policy in large advanced countries on emerging market economies�dubbed spillovers�is hotly debated in global and national policy circles. When the U.S. resorted to unconventional monetary policy, spillovers on asset prices and capital flows were significant, though...

We explore the stability properties of interest rate rules granting an explicit response to stock prices in a New-Keynesian DSGE model populated by Blanchard-Yaari non-Ricardian households. The constant turnover between long-time stock holders and asset-poor newcomers generates a financial...

This paper explores the effect of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (QE2) on a group of frontier developing economies (FDEs) in Asia. This paper finds that spillovers emanating from the U.S. on FDEs in Asia have been small. The relative insulation of emerging Asia from the global financial...

Introduction -- The institutional structure, state and state-owned financial institutional arrangements -- Monetization and financial control by the state -- Financial support to the gradual reform -- The model of money demand during transition -- Transitional arrangements of the financial...

Ideas, networks and monetary politics in Japan -- Deflation, monetary policy responses, and the BOJ -- Monetary politics: interests, ideas and policy networks -- The BOJ worldview and its historical development -- The monetary policy network -- Ideas and monetary policy: a quantitative test --...