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A new two-pillar strategy for the ECB
De Grauwe, Paul; Gros, Daniel - 2009
The ECB has been arguing in the past that since there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability, the pursuit of price stability is the best a central bank can do to also maintain financial stability. We argue that there is a potential trade-off between price stability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888991
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Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone : an empirical test
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575314
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Europe's new border taxes
Cnossen, Sijbren; Verwaal, Ernst - 2001
Instead of abolishing internal border controls in 1993, the European Union (EU) replaced them with VAT and statistical …, 5 per cent of the value of their intra-EU trade. This figure is probably higher for other EU Member States. Obviously …, the costs constitute a (differentiated) border tax that impedes intra-EU trade. The paper analyses the determinants of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398053
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How should tobacco be taxed in EU-accession countries?
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2001
affectsrevenue, tobacco consumption control, and EU competition. Thispaper examines the arguments and concludes that a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399671
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Fiscal rules, financial stability and optimal currency areas
De Grauwe, Paul; Foresti, Pasquale - 2015
In this paper we suggest that Eurozone countries face a policy trade-off among: 1) a common rule imposing co-movements in fiscal policy; 2) financial stability; and 3) financial integration. We provide empirical evidence documenting the existence of such a trade-off in the period characterized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010533078
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The interest rate pass-through in the euro area during the sovereign debt crisis
Borstel, Julia von; Eickmeier, Sandra; Krippner, Leo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342420
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246072
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What's in a second opinion? : shadowing the ECB and the Bank of England
Neuenkirch, Matthias; Siklos, Pierre L. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788857
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The long arm of the European VAT, exemplified by the Dutch experience
Bettendorf, Leon; Cnossen, Sijbren - 2014
these design shortcomings, the EU VAT is in danger of becoming an anachronism compared with modern VATs elsewhere. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337520
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The interest rate pass-through in the Euro area during the global financial crisis : conference paper
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013
This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is...
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