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Fiscal Sustainability in the EU after the Global Crisis : Is There Any Progress?

Wysocki, Maciej - 2018

interesting case of a member state that without significant market pressure (the only EU country without recession during the … crisis) actively promoted several changes in the EU fiscal framework (e.g. 6-pack) and effectively internalized some of these … 2014 Q1. The case of Poland seems to suggest that the post-crisis EU fiscal measures can be effectively used to increase …

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What Do Central Bankers Do? Evidence from the European Central Banks' Executive Board

Badinger, Harald - 2019

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank’s Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...

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Central Bank Policies and Financial Markets : Lessons from the Euro Crisis

Mody, Ashoka - 2019

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone’s rolling financial crisis. For providing desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we identify financial markets’ response to the...

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Revisions of Potential Output Estimates in the EU after the Great Recession

Dovern, Jonas - 2019

Using European Commission real-time data, we show that potential output (PO) estimates were substantially and persistently revised downwards after the Great Recession. We decompose PO revisions into revisions of the capital stock, trend labor, and trend total-factor productivity (TFP)....

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Domestic Banks as Lightning Rods? Home Bias and Information During the Eurozone Crisis

Saka, Orkun - 2019

European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I...

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Collective Memories on the 2010 European Debt Crisis

Arnemann, Laura; Konrad, Kai A.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine whether collective memories on the aid&reform programs chosen to handle the 2010 European debt crisis differ between citizens from borrower and lender countries. We use new international survey data for non-experts and experts in member countries of the euro area. The results show...

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Energy Contagion in the COVID-19 Crisis

Heinlein, Reinhold - 2020

We investigate the relationship between oil prices and stock markets of selected oil importers and oil exporters at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide evidence in favour of energy contagion, in term of significantly higher correlations between oil and stock markets returns during...

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Taxation Systems in the EU : The Role of Economic Integration and Global Financial Crisis

Erol, Kazim Okan - 2021

This study aims to scrutinize the change of public revenue systems of the EU-15 between 1980 and 2016. The share of … consumption taxes in total tax revenues increases and this process have triggered higher tax burden on labor in most of the EU …

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The Importance of Being Vigilant : Has ECB Communication Influenced Euro Area Inflation Expectations?

Jansen, David-Jan; de Haan, Jakob - 2021

Using daily data on inflation-indexed bonds, we find evidence of a negative relationship between ECB communication regarding risks to price stability - measured on the basis of the frequency and strength of the keyword 'vigilance' - and changes in euro area break-even inflation. However, this...

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The ECB's Policy, the Recovery Fund and the Importance of Trust : The Case of Greece

Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Economides, George; … - 2021

efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock …

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