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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies … the German government pushed during the Eurozone crisis have been informed by the ordoliberal tradition. In particular …

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An unemployment re-insurance scheme for the eurozone? : stabilizing and redistributive effects

Dolls, Mathias - 2020

This paper develops a decomposition framework to study the importance of diﬀerent stabilization channels of an unemployment re-insurance scheme for the euro area. Running counterfactual simulations based on household micro data for the period 2000–16, the paper ﬁnds that the re-insurance...

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Sustainability and solvency of government finances under the euro : illustrations and policy Options

Oksanen, Heikki - 2020

In this paper, sound public finances under the euro means sustainability in the long term instead of short- and medium-term fiscal discipline. The challenges to sustainability are identified for the four largest euro area member states, and several policy options for sustainability are...

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The Euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions and unconventional monetary policy

Hülsewig, Oliver; Scharler, Johann - 2020

We explore the reaction of the euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions to an unconventional monetary policy shock. We estimate panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models over the period 2010-2018, and identify the shock by imposing sign restrictions. Our results suggest that the...

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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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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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Quantitative easing in the euro area : an event study approach

Urbschat, Florian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2017

We examine the effects of the Asset Purchase Programme (APP) gradually introduced by the European Central Bank from September 2014 onwards. Studying the short-term reaction of financial markets after APP press releases, we analyse the development of bond yields and spreads around these releases....

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The risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Nöckel, Matthias - 2018

In this paper, we provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that works through the relaxation of lending standards for borrowers. Our dataset covers the period 2003Q1-2016Q2 and includes, in addition to the standard variables for real GDP growth,...

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The Brexit as a forerunner : monetary policy, economic order and divergence forces in the European Union

Müller, Sebastian; Schnabl, Gunther - 2018

We analyze the effects of the increasingly expansionary monetary policies on the economic order and on the European integration process. We argue that the market orders shaped in postwar Germany and in Margret Thatcher's United Kingdom have long served as cornerstones for growth, prosperity and...

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Currency unions, trade, and heterogeneity

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018

How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...

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