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Stable money and central bank independence : implementing monetary institutions in postwar Germany
Hefeker, Carsten - 2019
Germany prides itself in having one of the most successful central banks and currencies with respect to independence and stability. I show that not only were both imposed on the country after 1945 but that there was also initial resistance to both among German experts and officials. This is a...
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How money relates to value? : an empirical examination on gold, silver and bitcoin
Alves, José; Gonçalves, João Quental - 2022
The present work offers a review on two divergent schools of thought regarding the subject of money and highlights why understanding it is important to grasp the workings and nature of the concept of money. We adopt a spontaneous order perspective on social institutions, considering money as...
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Crypto trading and bitcoin prices : evidence from a new database of retail adoption
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Dörr, Sebastian; … - 2023
Prices for cryptocurrencies have undergone multiple boom-bust cycles, together with ongoing entry by retail investors. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail use of crypto exchange apps at daily frequency for 95...
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Cryptocurrency market reactions to regulatory news
Auer, Raphael A.; Claessens, Stijn - 2020
Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations, transaction volumes and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions. The impact depends on the specific regulatory category to which the news relates: events...
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The role of political institutions for the effectiveness of central bank independence
Hielscher, Kai; Markwardt, Gunther - 2011
This paper empirically studies the impact of the quality of political institutions on the link between central bank independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible nonlinearities, we employ interaction models to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012047
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Trends in monetary policy transparency
Geraats, Petra M. - 2009
Transparency has become a prominent feature of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of central bank … communication practices and is the first to systematically analyze transparency trends throughout the world and across monetary … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818025
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Monetary policies of large industrialised countries, emerging market credit cycles and feedback effects
Andreas, Hoffmann; Schnabl, Gunther - 2014
This paper explores the link between monetary policies of large industrial countries and international credit cycles. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of large centre countries can fuel credit booms in...
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The Greek crisis : causes and consequences
Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia; Ghezzi, Piero - 2011
Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster than GDP. Fiscal consolidation alone cannot close the solvency gap. A substantial reduction in the stock of debt is needed. Even post-debt restructuring, there is no guarantee...
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Sovereign risk dynamics in the EU : the time varying relevance of fiscal and external (im)balances
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Monteiro, Sofia - 2024
Acknowledging the potential detrimental impact that twin-deficits may have on sovereign risk, this study uses a two-step approach to assess the impact of fiscal and external sustainability on sovereign risk dynamics for a panel of 27 European Economies between 2001Q4 and 2022Q3. To do so, we...
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Exit strategies, capital flight and speculative attacks : Europe's version of the trilemma
Steiner, Andreas; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2017
In the winter 2011/12 a wave of internal capital flight prompted the ECB to abandon its exit strategy and to announce an unprecedented monetary expansion. We analyze this episode in several dimensions: (i) by providing an event-study analysis covering key variables from national central banks'...
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