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This paper explores the evolution and determinants of public support for the euro since its creation in 1999 until the … end of 2017, thereby covering the pre-crisis experience of the euro, the crisis years and the recent recovery. Using … public support for the euro. First, we find that a majority of respondents support the euro in nearly all 19 euro area member …
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This dissertation focuses on describing and explaining business cycle dynamics. Motivated by the extraordinary strong economic downturn in 2008/2009, it emphasis the importance of modeling nonlinearities. This thesis should be regarded as a contribution to applied econometrics and can be...
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The secular decline in the equilibrium real interest rate observed over the past decades has materially limited the room for policy-rate reductions in recessions, and has led to a marked increase in the incidence of episodes where policy rates are likely to be at, or near, the effective lower...
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The secular decline in the equilibrium real interest rate observed over the past decades has materially limited the room for policy-rate reductions in recessions, and has led to a marked increase in the incidence of episodes where policy rates are likely to be at, or near, the effective lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619146
equilibrium real rate using an estimated DSGE model for the euro area. We demonstrate that simple feedback rules that implement …
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We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of 1960-2006 using the non-linear time-varying coefficients factor model proposed by Phillips and Sul (2007). This approach is extremely flexible on order to model a large number of...
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sectors - industry, services, construction, and agriculture - across the four largest euro area economies - Germany, France …, Italy and Spain - and the euro area as a whole. By modelling prices together with real activity, employment and wages, we …, we also allow for spillovers to the other euro area countries in our sample. …
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Monetary policymakers and long-term investors would benefit greatly from a measure of underlying inflation that uses all relevant information, is available in real time, and forecasts inflation better than traditional underlying inflation measures such as core inflation measures. This paper...
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The headline consumer price index (CPI) is often considered too noisy, narrowly defined, and/or slowly available for policymaking. On the other hand, traditional core inflation measures may reduce volatility but do not address other issues and may even exclude important information. This paper...
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