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Inter-Temporal Savings, Current Account Dynamics and Asymmetric Shocks in a Heterogeneous European Monetary Union
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094029
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Inter-temporal Savings, Current Account Dynamics and Asymmetric Shocks in a Heterogeneous European Monetary Union
Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - CESifo - 2010
In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833919
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia
Schnabl, Gunther - 2021
The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate volatility on growth in Emerging Europe and East Asia. Exchange … panel estimations provide evidence for a negative impact of exchange rate volatility on growth both in Emerging Europe and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317017
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Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate : A Simultaneous Equations Approach Using Realized Volatility
Hillebrand, Eric T.; Schnabl, Gunther; Ulu, Yasemin - 2021
We use realized volatility to study the influence of central bank interventions on the yen/dollar exchange rate …. Realized volatility is a technical innovation that allows specifying a system of equations for returns, realized volatility … increase in volatility associated with interventions. During the period 1999 through 2004, the estimations are consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317518
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The Macroeconomic Policy Challenges of Balance Sheet Recession : Lessons from Japan for the European Crisis
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary monetary and fiscal policies is the hysteresis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081055
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A Vicious Cycle of Manias, Crashes and Asymmetric Policy Responses - An Overinvestment View
Hoffmann, Andreas - 2013
The business cycles theories of Wicksell (1898), Schumpeter (1912), Mises (1912), Hayek (1929, 1935) and Minsky (1986, 1992) explain business cycles by distorted prices on capital markets, buoyant credit expansion and overinvestment. The exuberance during the boom endogenously causes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095338
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Fiscal Divergence and Current Account Imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther - 2013
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086602
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The Impact of Japanese Monetary Policy Crisis Management on the Japanese Banking Sector
Gerstenberger, Juliane - 2017
The paper analyses the impact of Japanese monetary policy crisis management on the Japanese banking sector since the 1998 Japanese financial crisis. It shows how low-cost liquidity provision as a means to stabilize banks has created a growing gap between deposits above lending and has compressed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955417
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The Failure of ECB Monetary Policy from a Mises-Hayek Perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek over-investment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable over-investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958878
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Central Banking and Crisis Management from the Perspective of Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
The paper analyses the evolvement and effects of central bank crisis management since the mid 1980s based on a Hayek-Mises-Wicksell over-investment framework. It is shown that, given that the traditional transmission mechanism between monetary policy and consumer price inflation has collapsed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977401