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David Saha and Jakob von Weizsäcker present the latest breakdown of the fiscal stimuli in the 13 largest EU economies and compare the total European package for 2009 to the US stimulus package. The authors estimate the size of the European stimulus packages to increase to 0.99% of GDP following...
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Als Harry Johnson vor genau 20 Jahren sein Plädoyer für flexible Wechselkurse hielt, waren die Weichen zur Auflösung des Festkurssystems von Bretton Woods bereits gestellt. Die zu Beginn der fünfziger Jahre vielbeklagte Dollarknappheit war längst einer Dollarflut gewichen. Das...
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Konjunktur als eine mehrfristig wellenförmige Veränderung der wirtschaftlichen Aktivität definiert. Anknüpfend an die ältere Konjunkturtheorie wird ein Konjunkturzyklus in sechs Phasen unterteilt: die untere Wendephase, zwei Aufwärtsphasen, markiert von...
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The business cycles theories of Wicksell (1898), Schumpeter (1912), Mises (1912), Hayek (1929, 1935) and Minsky (1986, 1992) explain business cycles by distorted prices on capital markets, buoyant credit expansion and overinvestment. The exuberance during the boom endogenously causes the...
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There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the ECB's monetary policies. In order to test this ?ECB-handicap? hypothesis, we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries....
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In the standard New Keynesian sticky price model the central bank faces no contradiction between the stabilization of inflation and the stabilization of the welfare relevant output gap after a productivity shock hits the economy. When the standard model is enhanced by real wage rigidities or...
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This paper examines the countercyclical policy options available to Latin American countries in the face of the current global economic crisis, concluding that most of the major countries in the region appear to possess the fiscal space (as measured by credible fiscal sustainability and debt...
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Die Konjunktur liegt infolge der Finanzmarktkrise auf der Intensivstation. Was ist jetzt die richtige Medizin, in welcher Dosis muss sie verabreicht werden? Die bisher beschlossenen Maßnahmenpakete der Bundesregierung reichen nach Einschätzung des RWI Essen nicht aus. Um eine tiefe und...
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Slower growth and higher inflation can worsen poverty. By implication, maintaining macroeconomic stability is necessary to reduce poverty. When a typical aggregate demand (AD) policy for stabilization is not effective, however, its impact on poverty could be devastating as incomes of the poor...
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