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This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...
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speeches. To carry out the analysis, we construct the Euro Area Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (EA-MPD). This database …, is a contribution on its own right and we expect it to be the standard in monetary policy research for the euro area. …
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This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board over a period of two years, we codify and analyze more...
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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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While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and …
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integration process. We argue that the market orders shaped in postwar Germany and in Margret Thatcher's United Kingdom have long …
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transmission in the euro area over the period 1999-2015. MVARs allow us to differentiate between different states of the economy … multiple variables. We show that monetary policy transmission in the euro area can indeed be described as a mixture of two … the transmission mechanism is indeed different for the euro area during times of economic and financial distress. …
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prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life … responses quantified in this paper point towards important heterogeneity in monetary-policy transmission within the euro area. …
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In this paper, we provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that … stance, the aforementioned two indicators for the shadow banking sector. Based on vector autoregressive models for the euro … expansion of assets. Country-specific estimations confirm these findings for most of the euro area countries, but also reveal …
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This paper shows that the eurozone payment system does not effectively protect member states from speculative attacks. Suspicion of a departure from the common currency induces a terminal outflow of central bank money in weaker member states. TARGET2 cannot inhibit this drain but only protects...
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