TARGET2 and central bank balance sheets
type="main" xml:id="ecop12025-abs-0001"> <title type="main">Summary</title> <p>The eurozone's TARGET2 payments system has featured heavily in academic and popular discussions of the euro crisis. Some of this commentary has described the system as being responsible for a ‘secret bailout’ of Europe's periphery. Another common theme has been that the system has built up large credit risks for Germany should the euro break up. This paper discusses the TARGET2 system, focusing in particular on how it impacts the balance sheets of the central banks that participate in the system. It discusses the factors driving TARGET2 balances, considers some counterfactual cases in which eurozone monetary policy might have operated differently, examines the risks to Germany and considers proposals for settlement of these balances.
— Karl Whelan
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2014
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Authors: | Whelan, Karl |
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Economic Policy. - Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). - Vol. 29.2014, 77, p. 79-137
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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Center for Economic Studies (CES) Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE) |
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