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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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Why has the Euro been falling?
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2001
This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398903
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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 …
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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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The minimum inflation rate for Euroland
Reutter, Michael; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
As a result of the Balassa effect relative prices change rapidly between and within the euro countries. Thus it is impossible to find a common monetary policy that will result in price stability in all countries. Based on empirical estimates of the Balassa model, the paper calculates a minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786718
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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