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Transatlantic monetary and fiscal policy interaction

Aarle, Bas van; Garretsen, Harry; Huart, Florence - 2003

This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...

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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union

Hefeker, Carsten - 2003

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...

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Fiscal transfers in a monetary union with exit option

Hefeker, Carsten; Neugart, Michael - 2015

It is widely debated whether a monetary union has to be accompanied by a fiscal transfer scheme to accommodate asymmetric shocks. We build a model of a monetary union with a central bank and two heterogeneous countries that are linked by a fiscal transfer scheme with repercussions on monetary...

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Estimated general equilibrium models for the evaluation of monetary policy in the US and Europe

Leith, Campbell B.; Malley, James R. - 2002

A persistent criticism of general equilibrium models of monetary policy which incorporate nominal inertia in the form of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) is that they fail to capture the extent of inflation inertia in the data. In this paper we derive a general equilibrium model based on...

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Common monetary policy with asymmetric shocks

Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2002

What policy objective should a common central bank in a heterogeneous monetary union pursue? Should it base its decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national welfare losses based on national rates of inflation and growth?...

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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union

Hefeker, Carsten - 2000

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781545

Inflation targeting versus nominal income targeting

Staudinger, Sylvia - 2000

a trade-off between inflation and output stabilization. This trade-off depends on the weight F the policy makers … targeting policy makers face a constant trade-off between inflation and real output growth: An increase in inflation leads to a … the model. The qualitative results about the trade-off between inflation and output growth remain the same as in the basic …

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Does conservatism matter? : a time series approach to central banking

Berger, Helge; Woitek, Ulrich - 1999

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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Monetary policy committees : individual and collective reputations

Sibert, Anne C. - 1999

This paper looks at how the reputation of a monetary policy making committee is jointly determined with the reputations of its individual members. I ask whether individuals ha ve more or less incentive to gain a reputation for being tough on inflation when they are part of a group. I examine the...

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Firm size and monetary policy transmission : evidence from German business survey data : presented at CEFifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003

Ehrmann, Michael - 2004

Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...

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