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prices, equity prices and interest rates. Uncertainty shocks cause deeper recessions in Continental Europe (except Germany …) than in Anglo-Saxon countries. This pattern is compatible with the view that continental Europe still suffers from …
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prices, equity prices, and interest rates. Uncertainty shocks cause deeper recessions in Continental Europe (except Germany …) than in Anglo-Saxon countries. This pattern is compatible with the view that continental Europe still suffers from … Auswirkungen. In dieser Hinsicht erweist sich die Schweiz als das am stärksten betroffene Land in Europa außerhalb der Eurozone …
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prices, equity prices and interest rates. Uncertainty shocks cause deeper recessions in Continental Europe (except Germany …) than in Anglo- Saxon countries. This pattern is compatible with the view that continental Europe still suffers from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110907
The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...
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After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to purchase European government bonds - to ensure an "orderly monetary policy transmission mechanism". Many observers argued that, by bond purchases, national fiscal policies could...
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Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher borrowing rates than their peers of the core (e.g. Germany, France) and this divergence is widening. It is argued that severe market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area...
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This paper provides a first preliminary assessment of the recent two 3-year long-term refinancing operations (3Y LTROs) conducted by the ECB by putting them into a broader context. The perspective taken is that prevailing in the first half of the year 2012, directly after the path-breaking ECB...
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This paper argues that using gold as collateral for highly distressed bonds would bring great benefits to the euro area in terms of reduced financing costs and bridge-financing. It is mindful of the legal issues that this will raise and that such a suggestion will be highly controversial....
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Dieses Paper kommentiert die Bedeutung des vom Europa-Parlament seit Jahren fest institutionalisierten und viel …
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Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Argumente für und gegen einen Ausstieg aus der expansiven Geldpolitik. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Betrachtung der Effekte eines Ausstiegs der amerikanischen Notenbank Fed auf die Eurozone. Dies erscheint sinnvoll, da die Fed als eine der ersten großen...
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