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European Unemployment Revisited : Shocks, Institutions, Integration
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021
and turns of unemployment rates in Europe and elsewhere …
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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 … well as gradual real income losses, the economic policy implication for Japan and Europe is the timely exit from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081055
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The Monetary Policy of the ECB : A Robin Hood Approach?
Drometer, Marcus - 2013
We derive counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the period 1999 to 2012 to approximate the interest rates countries would have implemented had they still been able to conduct independent monetary policy. We find that prior to the financial crisis the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083869
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The Tragedy of the Commons and Inflation Bias in the Euro Area
Dinger, Valeriya - 2013
Central bank credit has expanded dramatically in some of the euro area member countries since the beginning of the financial crisis. This paper makes two contributions to understand this stylized fact. First, we discuss a simple model of monetary policy that includes (i) a credit channel and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089167
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The Interest Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area During the Global Financial Crisis
Hristov, Nikolay - 2013
This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro–area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest–rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089850
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Macroeconomic Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Euro Area
Peersman, Gert - 2013
I find that the Eurosystem can stimulate the economy beyond the policy rate by increasing the size of its balance sheet or the monetary base, that is so-called quantitative easing. The transmission mechanism turns out to be different compared to traditional interest rate innovations: whilst the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092365
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National Representation in Multinational Institutions : The Case of the European Central Bank
Badinger, Harald - 2013
Multinational institutions face an important trade-off when hiring personnel. On the one hand, hiring decisions are based, as in most organizations, on a candidate's professional qualifications. On the other hand, multinational institutions often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092423
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The European Central Bank : Lender of Last Resort in the Government Bond Markets?
De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092424
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Money Overhang, Credit Overhang and Financial Imbalances in the Euro Area
Kool, Clemens J.M. - 2013
This paper focuses on the relation between external imbalances and domestic money and credit growth in the euro area. We compute money and credit overhang both for the euro area as a whole and for individual member countries. Our results show that both aggregate money and credit overhang have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072508
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The Fragility of Two Monetary Regimes : The European Monetary System and the Eurozone
Ji, Yuemei - 2013
We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened. This came at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072510