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Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have … warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific …
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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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We analyse the background of the Greek debt crisis and evaluate the three Greek financial assistance programme. The …
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This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...
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European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis … covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I first re-confirm that the crisis led to the reallocation of sovereign … debt from foreign to domestic banks. In contrast to the recent literature focusing only on sovereign debt, I show that the …
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How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature has responded to the eurozone … debt crisis, placing "lessons learned" in historical perspective. The crisis featured: (i) the return of debt problems to …-over problems and self-fulfilling crisis dynamics; (iv) severe debt distress without outright sovereign defaults; (v) large …
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benign exit from the Eurozone with stable investor expectations could substantially dampen the short-run impact …
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European debt crisis, we analyze the role of television news in the rise and re-convergence of GIIPS bond spreads vis …-à-vis Germany from 2007 to 2016. We use a dataset of more than one million human-coded news items from leading newscasts worldwide … to identify over 25,000 news on the Eurozone and country-specific economic topics. Our findings emphasize the relevance …
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debt and currency crisis. The model is built on two essential blocks: first, erratic macroeconomic policymaking in Greece … is described using a stochastic regime-switching model; second, the euro area governments’ responses to uncertain … macroeconomic policies in Greece are considered. The model's mechanism and assumptions allow either for a Grexit from the euro area …
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economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies …German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …
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