Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …

and financial sector effects of uncertainty. In that respect, we compare the impacts of a US and a Euro area uncertainty …, Switzerland turns out to be the most affected non-Euro area European country. We also find a high degree of synchronization among …

whether uncertainty over future interest rates in the Euro area hampers monetary policy transmission. In this non-linear model … data on domestic investment and interest rates on corporate loans for 5 countries of the Euro area in the period ranging …