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This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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The creation of the euro and the European Central Bank is a remarkable and unprecedented event in economic and … some advocate the euro despite its economic problems because of its assumed favorable effects on European political …
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. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our … central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro will lead European prices to become more insulated from exchange …
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conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of … contingent Euro forward contracts with value dates at the start of" Stage 3, allows a highly credible preannouncement of the …
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At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to … between member countries whether or not members have also adopted the Euro. The Euro adoption as well as the anticipation of … the Euro adoption has minimal effects on market integration …
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Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms … remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral … euro's impact on financial integration is primarily driven by eliminating the currency risk. Legislative …
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The paper provides and empirical characterization of fiscal policy in the euro area and in a group of twenty-two OECD … economies over the period from 1970 until 2007. Using the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance we document that policy in the euro … policies. However, the component of the budget due to automatic stabilizers reacts stronger in the euro-area countries than in …
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of American economists about the euro and the European Economic and Monetary Union on the tenth anniversary of the euro … of the euro was political, not economic and that the creation of the euro could lead to increased conflict within Europe …
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others used the gravity model on a much smaller data set to estimate the effects of the euro on trade among its members. The … that were estimated in the euro's first four years hold up in the second four years? The answer is yes. Second, and more … explanations for the gap between 15% and 200%. First, lags. The euro is still very young. Second, size. The European countries are …
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