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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...

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Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone : an empirical test

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012

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Carbon pricing in the EU : evaluation of different EU ETS reform options

Brink, Corjan; Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2015 - This version: November 24, 2015

This paper studies various options to support allowance prices in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), such as … adjusting the cap, an auction reserve price, and fixed and variable carbon taxes in addition to EU ETS. We use a dynamic … at the EU Member State level. We find that both a variable carbon tax and an auction reserve price support effective …

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Equity price dynamics before and after the introduction of the euro : a note

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...

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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...

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Reforming the EU energy tax directive : assessing the options

Parry, Ian W. H.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2016

The efficiency case for raising fuel tax minima under the EU Energy Tax Directive (ETD) appears nuanced. Some fuels may … potentially much larger gains from extending tax minima to fuels (especially coal) covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (if …

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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...

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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

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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...

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Carbon content of electricity futures in phase II of the EU ETS

Fell, Harrison; Hintermann, Beat; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2013

physical settlement during the second market phase of the EU ETS. We employ a series of estimation methods that allow for an …

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