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Fiscal Sustainability in the EU after the Global Crisis : Is There Any Progress?
Wysocki, Maciej - 2018
In response to the global crisis a number of new institutional measures have been introduced in the fiscal framework, both on the UE and on the member states’ level, and the question is: have these measures provided better fiscal sustainability outcomes? We approach this question by looking at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908672
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892183
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859050
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250727
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831660
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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 countries via indirect taxation. In this study I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314956
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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area
Peersman, Gert - 2019
This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics …%- 30% of inflation volatility. In addition, large autonomous swings in international food prices contributed significantly … to the twin puzzle of missing disinflation and missing inflation in the era after the Great Recession. Specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892245
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Real Convergence, Price Level Convergence and Inflation Differentials in Europe
Égert, Balázs - 2021
root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … descriptive statistics. Subsequently, we set out the possible mismatches between price level convergence and inflation rates … factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316808
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Inflation Persistence in Europe : The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and of the Russia-Ukraine War
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
inflation persistence in both the euro zone and the European Union as a whole (EU27). For this purpose a fractional integration … evidence of a significant increase in inflation persistence (especially in the case of the EU27, for which in addition to jumps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242004