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Overvalued: Swedish monetary policy in the 1930s

Rathke, Alexander; Straumann, Tobias; Woitek, Ulrich - 2011

This paper reconsiders the role of monetary policy in Sweden's strong recovery from the Great Depression. The Riksbank in the 1930s is sometimes seen as an example of a central bank that was relatively innovative in terms of the conduct of monetary policy. To consider this analytically, we...

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Beschränktheit der makroökonomischen Diskussion überwinden

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 87 (2007) 11, pp. 742-747

Die zurückliegende Stagnation in Deutschland wird in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften unterschiedlich beurteilt. Während der „Mainstream“ die Auffassung vertritt, dass die wirtschaftliche Schwäche vor allem strukturell bedingt war, und Reformen auf der Angebotsseite für erforderlich hält,...

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The eurozone in the current crisis

Wyplosz, Charles - 2010

This paper contrasts the United States (US) and European situations during the crisis and examines how much of the crisis has been imported by Europe from the US. The paper argues that Europe never had a chance to avoid contagion from the US. It also documents the relatively limited reaction of...

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Macroeconomic dynamics and inflation regimes in the US: Results from threshold vector autoregressions

Mandler, Martin - 2010

This paper studies regime dependence in macroeconomic dynamics in the U.S. using a threshold vector autoregressive model in which endogenous regime switches are triggered by the inflation rate. The model separates a high from a low inflation regime with both regimes being strongly persistent....

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Monetary regime change and business cycles

Cúrdia, Vasco; Finocchiaro, Daria - 2007

This paper analyzes to what extent changes in monetary policy regimes influence the business cycle in a small open economy and investigates the impact of policy breaks on the estimation procedure. We estimate a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model on Swedish data, explicitly...

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Are earthquakes needed to shake economics?

Schettkat, Ronald - 2010

The current crisis is like an earthquake for the theoretical foundations of economic policies, which have guided governments and central banks for the last few decades. The efficient market hypothesis and its application to labor markets -'natural rate theory'- dominated interpretations of...

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Nicht zu früh bremsen!: Der Einfluss der Geldpolitik auf die langfristige Wirtschaftsentwicklung in Deutschland und den USA

Schettkat, Ronald; Sun, Rongrong - 2009

Neutralität von Geldpolitik wurde diese bei der Suche nach den Ursachen europäischer Arbeitslosigkeit verschont. Tatsächlich … Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen. Wir argumentieren, dass das Zusammenwirken negativer Schocks und einer restriktiven Geldpolitik die wesentliche -wenn … Europa war. Die Bundesbank -Europas 'Zentralbank' vor Etablierung der EZB- hat eine asymmetrische Geldpolitik in dem Sinne …

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Customer Markets and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks

Hristov, Nikolay - 2008

In recent years the New Keynesian Model with price stickiness of the Calvo type has become the most widely used theoretical framework for addressing various normative issues such as how optimal monetary and fiscal policy should be conducted. However, the New Keynesian Model has been criticized...

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The dire effects of the lack of monetary and fiscal coordination

Bianchi, Francesco; Melosi, Leonardo - 2017

What happens if the government's willingness to stabilize a large stock of debt is waning, while the central bank is adamant about preventing a rise in inflation? The large fiscal imbalance brings about inflationary pressures, triggering a monetary tightening, further debt accumulation, and...

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Domestic cycles, financial cycles, and policies: What has gone wrong?

Daianu, Daniel - 2017

The financial crisis and its ensuing effects have brought back into the limelight the issue of cycles and of policies which fuel or mitigate crises. Cognitive and operational models in economics and business are questioned. There is a specter of much lower economic growth in the industrialized...

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