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during the financial crisis. This type of shock can never be fully ruled out. EMU member states appear more vulnerable in …
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The EU accession countries have made remarkable progress in developing their financial sectors. Nevertheless, potential risks to banking sector stability remain. We take stock of these risks, with a focus on the challenges posed by the EU accession process. Important potential risks we identify...
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and the United Kingdom have changed around the economic crisis that erupted in mid-2007. We document that in these three … the outburst of the crisis. We show, however, that these factors did not contaminate the relationship between … firmly anchored during the crisis. …
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currency crisis a regional or global phenomenon?; and (iii) By controlling for “cross-market rebalancing do other mechanisms … like "financial openness" increase the probability of a currency crisis? We introduce the concept of conditional … probability of joint failure (CPJF) to measure the linkages of currency crisis intra- and inter-regionally. From estimating this …
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. This concept is applied to the Netherlands and six OECD countries which experienced a financial crisis. …
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During the Great Crisis, most governments in industrial countries supported their domestic financial sector under …
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Empirical fiscal policy reaction functions based on ex post data cannot be said to describe fiscal policymakers intentions, since they utilise data which did not exist when their decisions were made. A characterisation of what fiscal policymakers were trying to do requires real time data. This...
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This paper evaluates the Stability and Growth Pact. After examining the rules in place and the experience so far, the Pact is analysed from a political economy perspective, focusing on the choice for so-called soft law and drawing inferences from characteristics of successful fiscal rules at the...
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This paper evaluates the cyclicality, inertia and effect of EU accession on fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe using a real time dataset. Budget balances are found to react in a stabilising way to economic activity, and they are less inert than is typically found in Western Europe....
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This paper presents a framework that quantifies the trade-offs for a central bank that includes financial stability in its strategy and uses macroprudential instruments next to the interest rate. It is an innovative application of the Kaminsky and Reinhart early warning method, by assuming that...
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