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Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...
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Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
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This lecture addresses three related aspects of monetary and fiscal management in Europe and elsewhere. First, I discuss the implications of economic integration for monetary and fiscal policy, especially the narrow focus on low inflation as the main objective of monetary policy. I argue that...
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578