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While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and …
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We derive counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the period 1999 to 2012 to … which focus on countries which fare economically worse than the Euro Area average explain the EONIA path best …
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estimate Taylor rules for alternative sets of euro area aggregates derived from different weighting schemes of national …
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The sovereign debt crisis has made it clear that central banking is more than keeping inflation low. Central banks are also responsible for financial stability. An essential tool in maintaining financial stability is provided by the capacity of the central bank to be the lender of last resort in...
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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...
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the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal …
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We examine the impact of the ECB's QE on Euro Area real GDP and core CPI with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data …
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euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the … introduction of the euro and resulting in lower long-run uncertainty. It also appears that the direction of causality has been … reversed, and that in the euro period the Friedman-Ball link is empirically supported, implying that the ECB can achieve lower …
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This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...
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