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10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …
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decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates …
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The asset purchase programme of the euro area, active between 2015 and 2018, constitutes an interesting special case of Quantitative Easing (QE) because the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) involved the purchase of peripheral euro area government bonds, which were clearly not...
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find that the effect of the 2004 EU enlargement has been positive for both intermediate and final goods trade, and it is in …
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We analyze the benefits and costs of a non-euro country opting-in to the banking union. The decision to opt-in depends on the comparison between the assessment of the banking union attractiveness and the robustness of a national safety net. The benefits of opting-in are still only potential and...
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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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This paper investigates the trade effects of Turkey’s trade integration into the EU. To this end sectoral trade flows … to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002 are examined concentrating on Turkey's sixteen most important … export sectors. Emphasis is placed on the role of price competition, EU protection, and transport costs in the export trade …
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This paper examines the involvement of the CEECs into regional and global production networks over the period 1999 to 2009. We employ a theoretically justified gravity model which incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for firm heterogeneity. We first estimate the model for...
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Trust in the ECB has fallen to unprecedented lows in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Up to the start of the recession in 2008, trust levels in the ECB were moderately high and trust in the ECB was not affected by business cycle variables such as growth and inflation. This changed...
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