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Monnet's Error?
Guiso, Luigi - 2015
in pro-European sentiments in the EU 15 countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty seems to have reduced the pro …
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Conditional PPP and Real Exchange Rate Convergence in the Euro Area
Bergin, Paul R. - 2016
While economic theory highlights the usefulness of flexible exchange rates in promoting adjustment in international relative prices, flexible exchange rates also can be a source of destabilizing shocks. We find that when countries joining the euro currency union abandoned their national exchange...
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Estimating Latent Asset-Pricing Factors
Lettau, Martin - 2018
We develop an estimator for latent factors in a large-dimensional panel of financial data that can explain expected excess returns. Statistical factor analysis based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has problems identifying factors with a small variance that are important for asset pricing....
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Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing
Chang, Yen-Cheng - 2013
Studies find price increases for additions to the S&P 500 index but no decreases for deletions. Additions come with good earnings news, suggesting these studies are not just measuring an indexing effect. We develop a regression discontinuity design using Russell Indices for cleaner...
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The price stability oriented monetary policy of the European Central Bank
Gasi´nski, Wojciech; Misztal, Anna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 13 (2010) 3, pp. 5-15
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Nowcasting quarterly GDP dynamics in the Euro Area : the role of sentiment indicators
Gajewski, Paweł - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 17 (2014) 2, pp. 5-23
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Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area
Ireland, Peter N. - 2011
This paper estimates, using data from the United States and Euro Area, a two-country stochastic growth model in which both neutral and investment-specific technology shocks are nonstationary but cointegrated across economies. The results point to large and persistent swings in productivity, both...
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The European Union, the Euro, and Equity Market Integration
Bekaert, Geert - 2010
At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to … segmentation is significantly lower for EU versus non- EU members. Bilateral valuation differentials remain lower for EU members …, financial regulation, and interest rate differences. Importantly, we find that EU membership reduces equity market segmentation …
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Eurosystem Monetary Targeting : Lessons from U.S. Data
Rudebusch, Glenn D. - 2010
Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is...
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The Euro and European Economic Conditions
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2011
The creation of the euro should now be recognized as an experiment that has led to the sovereign debt crisis in several countries, the fragile condition of major European banks, the high levels of unemployment, and the large trade deficits that now exist in most Eurozone countries. Although the...
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