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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union

Baas, Timo - 2018

trade result in an asymmetric reaction to an otherwise symmetric shock. In this context, we show that oil price shocks can …

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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Abbritti, Mirko - 2012

How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...

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Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and Their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission

Hintermaier, Thomas - 2019

This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...

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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances : Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?

Baas, Timo - 2014

Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....

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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-Term Solution of the Euro Crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?

Saka, Orkun - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets

Anand, Rahul - 2010

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a two-sector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...

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The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks

Boeri, Tito - 2012

in normal times deep capital markets lead to tight labor markets. After an adverse liquidity shock, firms that rely much … shock. Third, we present evidence coherent with the idea that more leveraged sectors experience larger employment volatility … themselves in a position in which their liquidity is suddenly called back by the lender. This has direct consequences on a firm …

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Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks : Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2021

Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...

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Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition, and Staggering Complementarities

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. We show that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary in generating monetary persistence. We do so by proposing the new measure of quantitative inertia, after discussing...

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