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The paper scrutinizes the reasons for the European debt crisis, the implications for TARGET2 imbalances and options for surplus liquidity absorption within an asymmetric EMU. It is argued that starting from the turn of the millennium diverging fiscal policy paths and diverging unit labor costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108357
The paper scrutinizes the reasons for the European debt crisis, the implications for TARGET2 imbalances and options for surplus liquidity absorption within an asymmetric EMU. It is argued that starting from the turn of the millennium diverging fiscal policy paths and diverging unit labour costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506528
We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively asses the contribution of the TARGET2 system to the propagation of different types of structural economic shocks as well as to the historical evolution of aggregate economic activity in euro area member countries. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793977
Large increases in TARGET2 balances in the euro area since 2008 have led to concern and debate about the appropriate interpretation and policy reaction - in particular in TARGET2 creditor countries such as Germany. Against this background, we examine the main drivers of the increases and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518497
In this paper, we first present the state and the development of the European capital and current account imbalances. We demonstrate how large the heterogeneity among European countries is and that clustering here different types of countries is possible, but that it leads to different groupings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028253
In this paper, we first present the state and the development of the European capital and current account imbalances. We demonstrate how large the heterogeneity among European countries is and that clustering here different types of countries is possible, but that it leads to different groupings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303947
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013488845
We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively asses the contribution of the TARGET2 system to the propagation of different types of structural economic shocks as well as to the historical evolution of aggregate economic activity in euro area member countries. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922834
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011856883
The paper provides an account of the meaning and implications of TARGET2 in the eurozone (EZ) balance of payments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017589