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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Arouri, Mohamed; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, … - 2012

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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Who needs foreign banks?

Gros, Daniel - 2003

10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …

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One size must fit all : national divergences in a monetary union

Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2000

decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates …

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The benefits and costs of adjusting bank capitalisation : evidence from euro area countries

Budnik, Katarzyna; Affinito, Massimiliano; Barbic, Gaia; … - 2019

The paper proposes a framework for assessing the impact of system-wide and bank-level capital buffers. The assessment rests on a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model that relates individual bank adjustments to macroeconomic dynamics. We estimate FAVAR models individually for...

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Bank interest rate setting in the euro area during the Great Recession

Camba-Méndez, Gonzalo; Durré, Alain; Mongelli, … - 2016

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Macroprudential regulation in the European Union in 1995-2014 : introducing a new data set on policy actions of a macroprudential nature

Budnik, Katarzyna; Kleibl, Johannes - 2018

the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) between 1995 and 2014. The Macroprudential Policies Evaluation Database … banks and supervisory authorities of all EU member states. This paper describes the design and structure of the new data set … and presents the first descriptive analysis of the use of policy measures with a macroprudential nature in the EU over the …

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Capital and liquidity buffers and the resilience of the banking system in the euro area

Budnik, Katarzyna; Bochmann, Paul - 2017

How do capital and liquidity buffers affect the evolution of bank loans in periods of financial and economic distress? To answer this question we study the responses of 219 individual banks to aggregate demand, standard and unconventional monetary policy shocks in the euro area between 2007 and...

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Convergence of fiscal policies in the Euro area

Bandt, Olivier de; Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - 2000

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Asymmetries in the trans-Atlantic monetary policy relationship : does the ECB follow the Fed?

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2005

The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...

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Endogeneities of optimum currency areas : what brings countries sharing a single currency closer together?

De Grauwe, Paul (contributor); … - 2005

This paper brings together several strands of the literature on the endogenous effects of monetary integration: i.e., whether sharing a single currency may set in motion forces bringing countries closer together. The start of EMU has spurred a new interest in this debate. Four areas are...

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