Category Archives: Policy Briefs

POLICY BRIEF: Macroeconomic stabilisation in heterogeneous societies

Objectives

  • To construct a quantitative model where distributional issues matter
  • To use that model to analyse previously unconsidered shocks
  • To display new interactions between fiscal and monetary policies useful for stabilisation purposes

By Morten Ravn

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POLICY BRIEF: Recessions following expansions: The instability of market economies

Objectives

  • To provide new facts about business cycles in the economy and challenge the common view that the economy is fundamentally stable 
  • Developing models that illustrate a necessary trade-off between severity and length of recessions 
  • Recommend structural policies to limit recessions, rather than responses to shocks

By Paul Beaudry, Dana Galizia and Franck Portier

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POLICY BRIEF: One money, many markets

Summary:

  • Euro area aggregate business cycle explains a large proportion of the short-run fluctuations of its member countries.
  • Monetary policy transmission in the euro area appears to be persistently heterogeneous across member countries.
  • The degree of heterogeneity is inversely related to the degree of cross-border institutional convergence. While country-level financial variables react fairly similarly to the same monetary policy shock, variables naturally related to markets that have seen little convergence, such as housing and labour markets, react in significantly asymmetric ways.
  • Indeed, the heterogeneity found in monetary transmission into housing markets and personal consumption is correlated with differences in home ownership rates – an indicator reflecting many dimensions in which national housing markets differ from each other.

By João Duarte

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