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Sebastian Schmidt

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…primary surpluses and monetary seigniorage do. An exogenous drop in the private-sector demand for convenience assets reduces seigniorage revenues and raises the price level. It also results in a wealth transfer across countries owing to the heterogeneity in convenience yields.

10.02.2026 10:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I study price level determination in a currency union when some member countries‘ government securities earn a convenience yield. These convenience assets generate fiscal seigniorage revenues that, given appropriate fiscal and monetary policies, back the union‘s price level, much like…

10.02.2026 10:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My new working paper on Fiscal seigniorage and price level determination in a currency union: www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw...

10.02.2026 10:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Monetary–Fiscal Policy Interactions When Price Stability Occasionally Takes a Back Seat What are the macro-economic consequences of a government that is limited in its willingness or ability to raise primary surpluses, and a central bank that accommodates its interest-rate policy to the...

Monetary–Fiscal Policy Interactions When Price Stability Occasionally Takes a Back Seat - Schmidt - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

25.12.2025 07:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Annual Macro Meeting of the @vfsecon.bsky.social
@uniheidelberg.bsky.social, May 7-8, 2026
Call for Papers: macroeconomics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...
We welcome submissions in all areas of macroeconomics and from researchers at all career stages.

09.12.2025 16:55 — 👍 7    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
ECB-IMF conference on Fiscal Policy and EMU Governance Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) ist die Zentralbank der Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union, die den Euro eingeführt haben. Unsere vorrangige Aufgabe ist es, Preisstabilität im Euroraum zu gewähr...

ECB-IMF conference on Fiscal Policy and EMU Governance coming up in December: www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...

05.11.2025 10:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This reminds me of our ECB Discussion Paper on monetary-fiscal policy interactions and risks to price stability in times of high government debt, with Cristina Checherita-Westphal, Anna Rogantini and Jean-David Sigaux, published about a year ago: www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpd...

18.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Macro Musings with David Beckworth: George Hall on the Fiscal Consequences of the US War on COVID Check out David's Substack: for a special 500th episode post! George Hall is a professor of economics at Brandeis University and formerly worked as an economist at the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank. ...

macromusings.libsyn.com/george-hall-...

29.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to see “Fiscal Backing for Price Stability in a Monetary Union“ with Bartosz Mackowiak in print.

27.06.2025 14:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Christian, das freut mich.

15.02.2025 07:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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