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Financial Contagion and the European Debt Crisis
Missio, Sebastian - 2013
Since the beginning of 2010, the Euro Area faces a severe sovereign debt crisis, now generally known as the Euro Crisis. While the Euro Crisis has its origin in Greece, problems have now spread to several other European countries as well. Dynamic conditional correlation models (DCC) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092476
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073087
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The Sovereign Default Problem in the Eurozone : An Insurance-Based Approach
Arnold, Nadjeschda - 2015
This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020584
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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis : How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P. - 2015
German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies … the German government pushed during the Eurozone crisis have been informed by the ordoliberal tradition. In particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021693
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A Mechanism to Regulate Sovereign Debt Restructuring in the Euro Area
Andritzky, Jochen R. - 2016
To make the no-bailout clause credible and enhance the effectiveness of crisis assistance, a consistent institutional and legal framework is needed to ensure that private creditors contribute to crisis resolution. Getting activated as part of ESM crisis assistance, we propose a two-stage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982263
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The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2015
This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Using logistic smooth transition models, we explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012532
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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130414
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The Impact of Fiscal Rules on Public Finances : Theory and Empirical Evidence for the Euro Area
Marneffe, Wim - 2011
This paper presents a review of the most significant fiscal rules policymakers can choose from. The insights from this review are then applied to the current budgetary situation of the European Union. In the European Union, the supranational Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) should provide the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131350
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Target Losses in Case of a Euro Break-Up
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2012
Evaluation of the financial costs of a Eurozone breakup depends critically on the interpretation of TARGET balances …. While it has been argued that TARGET claims in the Eurozone can be written off without incurring any losses on the claimants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098046
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Smaller Public Sectors in the Euro Area : Aggregate and Distributional Implications
Economides, George - 2012
In this paper, we study the aggregate and distributional implications of a smaller public sector in the euro area. By a smaller public sector, we mean a reduction in public debt and/or cuts in public spending, when such changes in fiscal policy are accommodated by adjustment in various taxes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098961