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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...

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European Central Bank

Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013

We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...

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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

an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

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 relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …

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Systemic risk in banking, fire sales, and macroeconomic disasters

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Harvey, David I.; Kirman, Alan P.; … - 2024

market is endogenously formed. Bank assets are hit by idiosyncratic shocks drawn from a thin tailed distribution. The uneven … to be heavily indebted to other banks, their liquidation can trigger other bank failures. We find that the distribution …

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