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The paper evaluates current account dynamics in countries with different exchange rate regimes within the EU. In this, the empirical analysis explicitly differentiates between countries with a flexible and a fixed exchange rate regime and members of a monetary union. In addition, we model the...
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We assess to what extent wage inflation policies in Germany could contribute to an economic rebalancing in the euro … and output in Germany and the rest of the euro area. The duration of constant interest rates and expectations about the … consists of Germany, the rest of the euro area, and the rest of the world. …
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Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in countries where firms borrowed more from domestic banks ("domestic bank dependence") than in countries where firms borrowed more from international banks. Eurozone banking...
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We study how households adjust their medium-term inflation expectations under the new ECB strategy. We find that survey respondents make little difference between the previous strategy of targeting inflation rates close to but below 2% and the new strategy with a symmetric 2% target. Yet,...
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Germany and the rest of the euro area. Using data from the German component of Eurosystem's real-time gross settlement system …
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commercial banks to the Eurosystem's open market operations in conjunction with the redistribution of liquidity via the TARGET …
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