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The economics of investor protection : ISDS versus national treatment : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2015

Kohler, Wilhelm; Stähler, Frank - 2016 - Version of February 16, 2016

This paper scrutinizes the effects of investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) and national treatment provisions in a two-period model where foreign investment is subject to domestic regulation and a holdup problem. It shows that ISDS can mitigate the holdup problem and increases aggregate...

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Social union, convergence and migration

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

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On creditor seniority and sovereign bond prices in Europe : conference paper

Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2013

The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see De Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We critically evaluate this hypothesis, by pointing towards an...

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EU enlargement and the future of the welfare state

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

The eastern expansion of the EU resembles German unification in its mometousness. Whereas the latter led to a 26 …% increase in the population of the Federal Republic, the former will increase the population of the EU by 28% if all ten entry … and western Eurpean countries, a massive westward migration can be expected after EU expansion. A temporary east …

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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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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …

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The effective rate of interest on target balances

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2019

While the formal decision of the ECB Council to impose interest on Target claims and liabilities is meaningless, this paper shows that the pooling of primary interest income among national central banks in the Eurozone implies that Target and cash balances do, in fact, bear an effective rate of...

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Equity price dynamics before and after the introduction of the euro : a note

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...

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Why has the Euro been falling?

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 Euro Area's common pool problem revisited : has the Single Supervisory Mechanism ameliorated forbearance and evergreening?

Steinkamp, Sven; Tornell, Aaron; Westermann, Frank - 2017 - Last revision: October 6, 2017

The Single Supervisory Mechanism was introduced to eliminate the common-pool problem and limit uncontrolled lending by national central banks (NCBs). We analyze its effectiveness. Second, we model how, by forbearing and providing refinancing credit, NCBs avoid domestic resolution costs and,...

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