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Has the financial crisis eroded citizens’ trust in the European Central Bank? : panel data evidence for the euro area ; 1999-2011

Roth, Felix; Gros, Daniel; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2012 - Revised Version: March 2012

In the aftermath of the financial crisis trust, in the European Central Bank (ECB) has reached an historical low. Taking panel data and using a fixed effects DFGLS estimation for a 12–country sample over the time period 1999 to 2011 with a total of 312 observations, this paper detects a...

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The monetary policy of the ECB : a Robin Hood approach?

Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013

We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...

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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...

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EU-accession effects on sectoral trade : a Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein approach with panel data

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - 2014

This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in … EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts for firm heterogeneity and selection bias in a panel …-data framework. We find a positive and significant effect of the EU-accession on CEECs trade in intermediate and final goods. The …

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Who needs foreign banks?

Gros, Daniel - 2003

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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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014

This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECB s Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578

CEECs integration into regional and global production networks

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Voicu, Anca M.; Vidovic, … - 2011

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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MERCOSUR-European Union Trade : how important is EU trade liberalisation for MERCOSUR's exports?

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Turkey and the Ankara treaty of 1963 : what can trade integration do for Turkish exports?

Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Herzer, Dierk; … - 2005

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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Asymmetries in the trans-Atlantic monetary policy relationship : does the ECB follow the Fed?

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2005

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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