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The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone's rolling financial crisis. For providing … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …
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The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...
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model calibrated to the Euro Area (EA) and where monetary policy is conducted subject to the numerical rules of the …
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the exchange rates of three Central and Eastern European (CEE) currencies against the euro. First we estimate the nominal …
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We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period … economically worse than the Euro Area average perform best. -- monetary policy ; ECB ; Bundesbank ; decision rule ; counterfactual …
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This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
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Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different … political economy perspective, including a potential conflict with the established voting rights of current euro area member …
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This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECB s Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578
This paper studies ECB and Bundesbank communication on monetary policy during the first years of the European Economic and Monetary Union. We study whether statements by different (groups of) central bankers have been contradictory and whether differences have diminished over time. We find that...
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The likely extension of the euro area has triggered a debate on the organization of the ECB, in particular on the …
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