Germany's current account balance has been persistently high for about two decades and has increasingly attracted criticism as well as prompted proposals for policy measures geared to reducing the surplus. Assessing such proposals properly requires an analysis based on structural models. As...

In this document, we set out the details for extending the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM; cf. Christoffel, Coenen and Warne, 2008) with a non-zero import content of exports. We first describe the technology used by the intermediate-good firms for producing their differentiated outputs sold abroad....

The fiscal consolidation measures adopted in many euro area countries over 2010-13 reduced excessive domestic fiscal imbalances, but came at the cost of short-term output losses. This simultaneous tightening of fiscal policy raised concerns that such output losses might be exacerbated by...