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The positive border effect of EU integration

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011

, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …

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Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone : an empirical test

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012

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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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What's in a second opinion? : shadowing the ECB and the Bank of England

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Siklos, Pierre L. - 2013

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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization

Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. In prior research it has been well established that (EU) regions differ in …

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The interest rate pass-through in the Euro area during the global financial crisis : conference paper

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013

This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is...

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Monetary policy in EMU when the transmission is asymmetric and uncertain

De Grauwe, Paul; Sénégas, Marc-Alexandre - 2003

In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data.We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...

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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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Transatlantic monetary and fiscal policy interaction

Aarle, Bas van; Garretsen, Harry; Huart, Florence - 2003

This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules...

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Unexpected loan losses and bank capital in an estimated DSGE model of the Euro area

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver - 2016

We develop a stylized DSGE model in which banks face capital regulation and their loan portfolios are subject to non-diversifiable losses due to aggregate shocks. The framework is used to explore the importance of the interaction between macroeconomic conditions, credit default and bank...

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