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Exit strategies, capital flight and speculative attacks : Europe's version of the trilemma
Steiner, Andreas; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2017
In the winter 2011/12 a wave of internal capital flight prompted the ECB to abandon its exit strategy and to announce an unprecedented monetary expansion. We analyze this episode in several dimensions: (i) by providing an event-study analysis covering key variables from national central banks'...
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Wage setting under different monetary regimes
Holden, Steinar - 2002
In an economy with large wage setters (like industry unions), the monetary regime affects the trade-off between consumer real wages and employment and profits faced by the wage setters. This paper shows that an exchange rate target, including participation in a monetary union, is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408717
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Exchange rate regime, financial market bubbles and long-term growth in China : lessons from Japan
Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
The paper argues that persistent current account surpluses and increasing foreign currency-denominated asset positions constitute long-term appreciation expectations on yuan and yen, which have made China and Japan vulnerable to U.S. interest rate cuts and appreciation expectation shocks. For...
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One size must fit all : national divergences in a monetary union
Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2000
What policy objective should a common central bank in a heterogeneous monetary union pursue? Should it base its decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates of inflation and growth? We find that a central bank that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781604
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Monetary union, even higher integration, or back to national currencies?
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016
This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...
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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten - 2000
The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781545
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The fragility of two monetary regimes : the European monetary system and the Eurozone
Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened. This came at …
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Speculative eurozone attacks and departure strategies
Homburg, Stefan - 2018
This paper shows that the eurozone payment system does not effectively protect member states from speculative attacks … distributive effects of an orderly eurozone dissolution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931367
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Monetary policy in EMU when the transmission is asymmetric and uncertain
De Grauwe, Paul; Sénégas, Marc-Alexandre - 2003
In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data.We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781634