Similar Search Results

Globalization and the price decline of illicit drugs

Storti, Cláudia Costa; De Grauwe, Paul - 2007

decline has tended to offset the effects of drug policies aimed at reducing drug use in major industrial countries. The main … margin (the difference between the retail and producer prices) in the drug business. We develop the hypothesis, and give some … some thoughts about the effects of globalization on the effectiveness of drug policies and argue that globalization may …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264125

A new two-pillar strategy for the ECB

De Grauwe, Paul; Gros, Daniel - 2009

The ECB has been arguing in the past that since there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability, the pursuit of price stability is the best a central bank can do to also maintain financial stability. We argue that there is a potential trade-off between price stability and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266001

Is monetary policy in the Eurozone less effective than in the US?

De Grauwe, Paul; Storti, Cláudia Costa - 2005

There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the ECB's monetary policies. In order to test this ?ECB-handicap? hypothesis, we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276746

The impact of FX central bank intervention in a noise trading framework

Beine, Michel; De Grauwe, Paul; Grimaldi, Marianna - 2005

In this paper we investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBI) in a noise trading model with chartists and fundamentalists. We first estimate a model in which chartists extrapolate past returns and fundamentalists forecast a mean reverting dynamics of the exchange rate towards a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261316

Non-linearities in the relation between the exchange rate and its fundamentals

Altavilla, Carlo; De Grauwe, Paul - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between the euro-dollar exchange rate and its underlying fundamentals. First, we develop a simple theoretical model in which chartists and fundamentalists interact. This model predicts the existence of different regimes, and thus nonlinearities in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261347