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Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2001

This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...

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The minimum inflation rate for Euroland

Reutter, Michael; Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

As a result of the Balassa effect relative prices change rapidly between and within the euro countries. Thus it is impossible to find a common monetary policy that will result in price stability in all countries. Based on empirical estimates of the Balassa model, the paper calculates a minimum...

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Eurowinners and Eurolosers : The Distribution of Seigniorage Wealth in Emu

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2010

The European Monetary Union (EMU) will involve socialization of the existing seigniorage wealth of the national central banks, because the Euro will have to be bought by these banks in exchange for assets which have been accumulated in the historical process of money creation. This socialization...

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The Ecb's Fiscal Policy

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2018

While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarizes the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention spiral resulting from its bid to manage the crisis. It also...

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The Minimum Inflation Rate for Euroland

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Reutter, Michael - 2021

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Seignorage wealth in the Eurosystem : eurowinners and eurolosers revisited

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Feist, Holger - 2000

The rules laid down in Article 32 of the Protocol No. 18 on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank of the Maastricht Treaty will significantly redistribute European seignorage income and hence the implicit entitlement to the 352 billion stock of...

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The effective rate of interest on target balances

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2019

paper shows that the pooling of primary interest income among national central banks in the Eurozone implies that Target and … decentralized monetary system of the kind characterizing the Eurozone. It also implies that the recording of Target balances in the … balance sheets of national central banks is compatible with fair value accounting. Highlights * The Eurozone's Target and cash …

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The ECB's fiscal policy

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2018

While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarises the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention spiral resulting from its bid to manage the crisis. It also...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845207

Why Has the Euro Been Falling? An Investigation into the Determinants of the Exchange Rate

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230968

When will the Germans get trapped in their pension system?

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Übelmesser, Silke - 2001

The upcoming demographic crisis in Germany demands fundamentalreforms of the pension system. In a democracy, reforms are, however, onlyfeasible when they are supported by the majority of the electorate. Todetermine whether the majority is in favor of reforms of the pension system,we calculate...

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