Effectively ending the crisis in the euro area remains the key policy challenge in 2014. As monetary policy has exhausted its conventional options, fiscal policy is called upon to provide an expansionary impulse by raising public investment. The high level of risk premiums in the crisis-hit...

We simulate the Euro Area's fiscal consolidation between 2011 and 2013 by employing two DSGE models used by the ECB and the European Commission, respectively. The cumulative multiplier amounts to 0.7 and 1.0 in the baseline, but increases to 1.3 with a reasonably calibrated financial accelerator...

Auch 2014 ist die nachhaltige Überwindung der Krise des Euroraums die bedeutendste Herausforderung für die Wirtschaftspolitik. Da die Geldpolitik ist mittlerweile am Ende ihrer konventionellen Möglichkeiten angelangt, ist nun die Fiskalpolitik im Euroraum insgesamt gefordert, expansive...

We simulate the Euro Area's fiscal consolidation between 2011 and 2013 by employing two DSGE models used by the ECB and the European Commission, respectively. The cumulative multiplier amounts to 0.7 and 1.0 in the baseline, but increases to 1.3 with a reasonably calibrated financial accelerator...