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In this paper we study how the introduction of the euro has affected corporate financing in Europe. We use firm level … data from eleven euro-countries as well as from a control group of five other European countries spanning the years 1991 …-2006. We show that firms from euro-countries that previously had weak currencies have increased both their equity and debt …
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This Paper considers how the European Union, and more specifically the euro area, can contribute to international … internal stability in the euro area and has promoted a dynamic development of capital markets. But in some respects, monetary … positions on exchange-rate policy, the international financial architecture, and the euro as an international currency. …
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euro area. We study the impact of the adoption of the euro in January 1999 by 11 countries in Europe on the firms …) investments for EMU-firms have grown 2.5% more than for non-EMU firms, after 1999; and (ii) the benefits of the euro accrue …
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) in Europe. We use corporate-level data from ten countries that adopted the euro, the three EU countries that did not join … EMU, as well as Norway and Switzerland. We show that the introduction of the euro has increased Tobin's Q-ratios in EMU … are financially unconstrained. The evidence provided here supports the view that the introduction of the euro has lowered …
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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
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We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity … since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream and …
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conversion rates between the euro and the currencies of EMU members states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht Treaty … prices of EMU member currencies against the euro. Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One … approach, based on official Stage 2 offers of contingent euro forward contracts with value dates at the start of Stage 3 …
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, the euro and the Chinese renminbi (RMB). It focuses on what we call China’s" dominance hypothesis", i.e. whether the …
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This paper analyzes current stresses in the two key areas that concerned the architects of the original Bretton Woods system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they...
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The recent financial crisis teaches important lessons regarding the lender-of-last resort function. Large swap lines extended in 2007-08 from the Federal Reserve to other central banks show that the classic concept of a national last-resort lender fails to address key vulnerabilities in a...
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