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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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The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see De Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We critically evaluate this hypothesis, by pointing towards an...
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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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percent of the global surplus is a trade surplus that the EU has with itself. In this paper, we show that this EU self … within the Euro Area, and is strongest between neighboring countries. Around the 2004 Eastern Enlargement, the EU self … due to measurement error. Rather, a large fraction of the EU's self-surplus puzzle seems related to fraud in value added …
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Do the U.S. have a current account surplus or a deficit with the EU? Since 2009, official sources disagree: The U …
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The asset purchase program 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 Program) PSPP program involved the purchase of the bonds of peripheral Euro area governments, which were...
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Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...
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This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...
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