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Is fiscal policy coordination in EMU desirable?

Beetsma, Roel; Debrun, Xavier; Klaassen, Franc - 2001

It is widely argued that Europe's unified monetary policy calls for the international coordination at the fiscal level. We survey the issues involved with such coordination of fiscal policy as a demand management tool and we use a simple model to investigate the circumstances under which...

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Structural distortions and decentralized fiscal policies in EMU

Beetsma, Roel; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2001

The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a...

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Discretionary fiscal policy : review and estimates for the EU

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo - 2010

We briefly review the theoretical and empirical consequences of discretionary fiscal policy changes, after which we provide our own estimates for the EU countries. A fiscal expansion raises output and consumption and reduces the trade balance. Moreover, the stimulating effect of higher...

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Designing a permanent EU-wide stabilization facility

Beetsma, Roel; Kopits, György - 2020

While the EU recovery plan provides a useful step in alleviating the economic effects of the coronavirus crisis and achieving further European integration, a permanent fiscal stabilization capacity dealing with major crises is still missing. Such a EU-wide stabilization function would be in...

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Long-term interest rates and public debt maturity

Sakalauskaite, Ieva; Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo - 2013

For a sample of sixteen OECD countries over the period 1980-2007 we show that, for given debt-GDP ratio, an increase in the maturity of the public debt by one year lowers its long-term interest rate by around 20-30 basis points. This effect is stronger for countries with higher average inflation...

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The bail-out! : positive political economics of greek-type crises in the EMU

Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - 2010

analysis suggests that, given EMU's present political-economic set-up, i) the bail-out was unavoidable, ii) the lengthy process … with a future moral hazard problem. Based on our analysis, we suggest that the EMU's institutional design could be improved … processes as well as the conditions and parameters on which the scope and limits of fiscal redistribution in EMU depends. In …

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The Eurozone needs exit rules

Fahrholz, Christian; Wójcik, Cezary - 2012

This paper argues that the key issue for defining and solving the Eurozone's (EZ) difficulties lies in readjusting the relationship between the centre and the periphery of the EZ. Our argument proceeds in two steps. Firstly, the basic finance problem of a centre-periphery system is captured by a...

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The budgeting and economic consequences of ageing in the Netherlands

Beetsma, Roel; Bettendorf, Leon; Broer, Dirk Peter - 2001

The costs of population ageing are primarily reflected in larger expenditures on pensions and health care. This paper explores the consequences of ageing for the Netherlands in a baseline scenario simulated with a dynamic general equilibrium model. We discuss the sensitivity of the results under...

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Catching up : the role of demand, supply and regulated price effects on the real exchange rates of four accession countries

MacDonald, Ronald; Wójcik, Cezary - 2003

The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession countries, with a view to making policy recommendations regarding their accession to full European Monetary Union. We employ a dynamic OLS panel estimator to investigate the relative...

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Fiscal sustainability in the EU after the global crisis : is there any progress?

Wysocki, Maciej; Wójcik, Cezary - 2018

In response to the global crisis a number of new institutional measures have been introduced in the fiscal framework, both on the UE and on the member states’ level, and the question is: have these measures provided better fiscal sustainability outcomes? We approach this question by looking at...

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