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Austerity, growth and inflation : remarks on the Eurozone's unresolved competitiveness problem

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013

While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial … markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper … compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of …

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Fiscal consolidation and the current account : OECD evidence

Breuer, Christian; Nam, Chang-woon - 2020

-deficit effect is particularly pronounced in the case of expenditure cuts and in Eurozone countries. These findings are in line with …

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Current account imbalances and structural adjustment in the Euro area : how to rebalance competitiveness

Zemanek, Holger; Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther - 2009

Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...

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Stabilisation and rebalancing with fiscal or monetary devaluation : a model-based comparison

Vogel, Lukas - 2015

The paper uses a small open economy general-equilibrium model to compare fiscal and nominal exchange rate devaluation with respect to their impact on economic activity and the current account. In particular, it investigates to which extent fiscal devaluation mimics nominal exchange rate...

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Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2010

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Catching-up, inflation differentials and credit booms in a heterogeneous monetary union : some implications for EMU and new EU member states

MacDonald, Ronald (contributor); Wójcik, Cezary (contributor) - 2006

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Does the Euro-zone diverge? : a stress indicator for analyzing trends and cycles in real GDP and inflation

Flaig, Gebhard (contributor); … - 2007

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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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The modality of fiscal consolidation and current account adjustment : presented at CESifo, Delphi Conference on Current Account Adjustments, May 2015

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2015

In this paper we argue that supply-side adjustments (i.e. the reallocation of productive resources between the traded and non-traded sectors) can be an important determinant of the output costs of current account adjustment. The argument relies on the fact that tax evasion is more prevalent in...

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