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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … impact of political shocks on the domestic economy of member states but magnified the transmission of political shocks within …
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What accounts for the changes in U.S. fiscal policy transmission?
Bilbiie, Florin O.; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J. - 2006
Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series for 1957-1979 and 1983-2004, we find government spending shocks to have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample. We try to account for this observation within a DSGE model featuring price rigidities and limited...
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Fiscal policy in a monetary economy with capital and finite lifetime
Annicchiarico, Barbara; Giammarioli, Nicola; … - 2006
This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, capital accumulation and finite lifetimes. The framework exhibits intergenerational wealth effects and is intended to investigate the macroeconomic implications of fiscal policy, which is specified by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604707
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Fiscal convergence before entering the EMU
Onorante, Luca - 2006
The monetary integration of the acceding countries will proceed in several distinct steps, starting with membership in the European Union (EU), followed by participation in the so-called Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) II and ultimately entry into the euro area. This paper addresses the question...
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Monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a New Keynesian model with capital accumulation and non-Ricardian consumers
Leith, Campbell; von Thadden, Leopold - 2006
This paper develops a small New Keynesian model with capital accumulation and government debt dynamics. The paper discusses the design of simple monetary and fiscal policy rules consistent with determinate equilibrium dynamics in the absence of Ricardian equivalence. Under this assumption,...
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On policy interactions among nations: when do cooperation and commitment matter?
Kempf, Hubert; von Thadden, Leopold - 2008
This paper offers a framework to study commitment and cooperation issues in games with multiple policymakers. To reconcile some puzzles in the recent literature on the nature of policy interactions among nations, we prove that games characterized by different commitment and cooperation schemes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604926
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Monetary and fiscal policy aspects of indirect tax changes in a monetary union
Lipińska, Anna; von Thadden, Leopold - 2009
In recent years a number of European countries have shifted their tax structure more strongly towards indirect taxes, motivated, inter alia, by the intention to foster competitiveness. Against this background, this paper develops a tractable two-country model of a monetary union, characterised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605143
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Global policy at the zero lower bound in a large-scale DSGE model
Gomes, Sandra; Jacquinot, Pascal; Mestre, Ricardo; … - 2010
model of the global economy. We consider that the fiscal shocks are temporary and that fiscal policy retains full …
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The timing of central bank communication
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005
This paper explores whether there are systematic patterns as to when members of the decision-making committees of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank communicate with the public, and under what circumstances such communication has the ability to move financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604611
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Using intraday data to gauge financial market responses to Fed and ECB monetary policy decisions
Andersson, Magnus - 2007
This paper examines bond and stock market volatility reactions in the euro area and the US following their respective economies’ monetary policy decisions, over a uniform sample period (April 1999 to May 2006). For this purpose, intraday data on the US and euro area bond and stock markets are...
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