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exchange rate movements, international price level differentials, output stimulation, and welfare effects. Since Mundell (1963 … entire absence of microfoundations results in the use of ad-hoc welfare criteria for the evaluation of alternative policy … microfoundations with the MF assumption of nominal rigidities. This approach allows for an explicit welfare analysis on the basis of …
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purchases between tradable and non-tradable goods stabilises domestic activity and reduces the welfare costs of economy-wide and … sector-specific shocks. Potential welfare gains from such policy rules are higher than welfare gains from standard counter …
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This paper studies a multi-country currency union of small open economies. Demand-side disturbances hamper monetary union stabilisation unless participating countries’ business cycles are perfectly synchronised. In the face of country-specific supply shocks, a currency union of small open...
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We examine the long-run impact of fiscal policy on economic growth under the conditions of an economic and monetary union (EMU). The analysis is based on the neoclassical growth model of a small (in economic terms) open economy in an EMU. The core assumptions are perfect capital mobility, which...
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Fiscal policy is widely criticized for its failure to act as a stabilizing countercyclical force in the European Monetary Union. Two periods should be distinguished: Prior to the Financial Crisis of 2008, when monetary policy had traction to pursue stability for the aggregate eurozone, fiscal...
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a credit spread differential. The welfare losses will be increasing (decreasing) in the size of the cost channel, if the …
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