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Fiscal and monetary policies and the cost of sudden stops
Hutchison, Michael M.; Noy, Ilan; Wang, Lidan - 2007
This article investigates the effects of macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal) on output growth during financial crises characterized by a sudden stopʺ in net capital inflows in developing and emerging market economies. We investigate 83 sudden stop crises in 77 countries over 1982-2003...
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Managing households' expectations with salient economic policies
D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2019 - This version: August 2019
consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057290
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Are proposed African monetary unions optimal currency areas? : real, monetary and fiscal policy convergence analysis
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
fiscal policy convergence within the proposed WAM and EAM zones. The introduction of common currencies in West and East … Africa is facing stiff challenges in the timing of monetary convergence, the imperative of central bankers to apply common … panel GMM estimation with data from different non-overlapping intervals is employed. The implied rate of convergence and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410252
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Excess Savings and Twin Deficits : The Transmission of Fiscal Stimulus in Open Economies
Aggarwal, Rishabh; Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of debt-financed fiscal transfers in a general equilibrium, heterogeneous-agent model of the world economy. In the long run, increases in government debt anywhere raise the world interest rate and increase private wealth everywhere. In the short run, a country with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334403
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Economic growth with constraints on tax revenues and public debt : implications for fiscal policy and cross-country differences
Aizenman, Joshua; Kletzer, Kenneth; Pinto, Brian - 2007
This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854944
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Global liquidity, world savings glut and global policy coordination
Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2010
The global imbalances of the 2000s and the recent global financial crisis are intimately connected. Both originate in the combination of economic policies adopted by the two key economies, the US and China. Global financial markets served as a transmission belt, both during the boom as during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934687
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Drivers of climate change in selected emerging countries : the ecological effects of monetary restrictions and expansions
Thanh Phuc Nguyen; Tho Ngoc Tran; Thi Thu Hong Dinh; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-29
Drivers of environmental quality have recently been identified in a large body of literature. However, the ecological effects of both regimes of monetary policy remain under-explored so far. Moreover, previous studies use limited samples and econometric approaches. Climate change from the...
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The Fed's international dollar liquidity facilities: new evidence on effects
Goldberg, Linda S.; Ravazzolo, Fabiola - 2021
In March 2020, the Federal Reserve eased the terms on its standing swap lines in collaboration with other central banks, reactivated temporary swap agreements, and then introduced the new Foreign and International Monetary Authorities (FIMA) Repo Facility. We provide new evidence on how the...
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Is the selfish life-cycle model more applicable in Japan and, if so, why? : a literature survey
Horioka, Charles - 2020
The selfish life-cycle model or hypothesis is, together with the dynasty or altruism model, the most widely used theoretical model of household behavior in economics, but does this model apply in the case of a country like Japan, which is said to have closer family ties than other countries? In...
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Fiscal policies, the current account and Ricardian equivalence
Nickel, Christiane (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the empirical relationship between fiscal policy and the current account of the balance of payments and considers how Ricardian equivalence changes this relationship. To do so, we estimate a dynamic panel threshold model for 22 industrialised countries in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790939