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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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Comovements and heterogeneity in the euro area analyzed in a non-stationary dynamic factor model
Eickmeier, Sandra (contributor) - 2006
This paper seeks to assess comovements and heterogeneity in the euro area by fitting a nonstationary dynamic factor model (Bai and Ng, 2004), augmented with a structural factor setup (Forni and Reichlin, 1998), to a large set of euro-area macroeconomic variables observed between 1982 and 2003....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003376151
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Macroeconomic fluctuations and bank lending: evidence for Germany and the euro area
Eickmeier, Sandra (contributor); Hofmann, Boris (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes how bank lending to the private nonbank sector responds dynamically to aggregate supply, demand and monetary policy shocks in Germany and the euro area. The results suggest that the dynamic responses in the two areas are broadly similar, although there are some differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003384593
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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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Has the financial crisis eroded citizens’ trust in the European Central Bank? : panel data evidence for the euro area ; 1999-2011
Roth, Felix; Gros, Daniel; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2012 - Revised Version: March 2012
In the aftermath of the financial crisis trust, in the European Central Bank (ECB) has reached an historical low. Taking panel data and using a fixed effects DFGLS estimation for a 12–country sample over the time period 1999 to 2011 with a total of 312 observations, this paper detects a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711914
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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