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Spillovers from tax shocks to the euro area
Mierzwa, Sascha - 2021 - This version: 07 September 2021
I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...
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The effects of monetary policy surprises and fiscal sustainability regimes in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn's (1998) approach through Schlicht's (2003)...
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Fiscal policy in the macroeconomic policy mix : a critique of the new consensus model and a comparison of macroeconomic policies in France, Germany, the UK and Sweden from a post-K...
Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - 2008
ausschließlichen Konzentration auf die Geldpolitik als Stabilisierungsinstrument, wegen seiner mangelhaften Berücksichtigung der Rolle … von Löhnen und der Lohnpolitik und wegen seiner kompletten Vernachlässigung der stabilisierenden Rolle der Finanzpolitik …. Aus Post-Keynesianischer Sicht wird gezeigt, dass die Finanzpolitik eine wichtige Rolle für die makroökonomische …
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The "dark ages" of German macroeconomics and other alleged shortfalls in German economic thought
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2017
Ordoliberalism is often accused as being responsible for Germany's policy stance during the Eurozone crisis. Ordoliberalism originates from the so-called Freiburg School of Economics, founded by Walter Eucken during the 1930s at the University of Freiburg, which is in fact in Germany. It is...
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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015
German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280050
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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015
German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper analysis of ordoliberal thinking reveals that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528303
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Monetary and Fiscal Policies in the Euro Area
Carlberg, Michael - 2007
This paper studies monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the German government, and the French government. As...
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Does Conservatism Matter? A Time Series Approach to Central Banking
Berger, Helge; Woitek, Ulrich - 2021
The empirical literature on central banking has found measures of central bank independence/conservatism to be negatively correlated with inflation and inflation variance across countries. But the cross-country approach has been criticised for its focus on policy outcomes instead of policies,...
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The fiscal-monetary nexus in Germany
Ehnts, Dirk H. - 2020
In this paper, the focus lies on the way the German government spends, how it spends and what the connection between finance ministry and central bank is. The institutions involved in the process are identified and discussed. As a member of the Eurozone, Germany's national central bank is not...
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