Das vorliegende Arbeitspapier untersucht, auf welche Art die polnische Regierung das Problem der Inflation zu behandeln versucht. Durch eine Reduktion der fiskalpolitischen Dominanz und härtere Budget-Richtlinien ist Polen seinem Ziel schon deutlich näher gekommen. Dies schlägt sich auch auf...

To investigate the effects on Papua New Guinea’s economy of substantial liquified natural gas revenues arriving in 2015, we employ a model to examine the macroeconomic effects of a scalingup of natural resource windfall revenues and the implications for a variety of policy responses. The model...

The pace of progress toward achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG) in many sub-Saharan African countries remains too slow to reach targets by 2015, despite significant progress in the late 1990s. The MDG Africa Steering Group, convened in September 2007 by the UN Secretary-General,...

This paper investigates within a SVAR framework the effects of anticipated monetary policy in the euro area. Building on a procedure recently proposed by Cochrane yielding the response of output to an anticipated monetary policy impulse, we show that in the past twenty years anticipated monetary...