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Reverse causality in global current accounts
Schnabl, Gunther; Freitag, Stephan - 2010
Germany as center countries with rising / high current account deficits (US) and surpluses (Germany). These are matched by … analysis extends from 1981-2008, the results for Germany mostly capture the situation before the euro was created. - Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973544
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Sudden stops and asset purchase programmes in the euro area
Fabiani, Josefina; Fidora, Michael; Setzer, Ralph; … - 2021
This paper analyses the incidence and severity of sudden stops in euro area countries before and after the introduction of the ECB's asset purchase programmes. We define sudden stops as abrupt declines in private net financial inflows, i.e. total flows adjusted for EU and IMF loans and changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643263
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German wage moderation and European imbalances : feeding the global VAR with theory
Bettendorf, Timo; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2015
bargaining shock. We then impose these restrictions on a Global VAR consisting of Germany and 8 EMU countries to identify a wage … bargaining shock in Germany. Our results show that, although the German current account was significantly affected by wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011292316
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A panel VAR analysis of macro-financial imbalances in the EU
Comunale, Mariarosaria - 2017
We investigate the interactions across current account misalignments, Real Effective Exchange Rate misalignments and financial (or output) gaps within EU countries. We apply panel techniques, including a Bayesian panel VAR, to 27 EU members over the period 1994-2012. We find that, for the euro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637376
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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794175
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Asymmetric credit growth and current account imbalances in the euro area
Unger, Robert - 2015
factor. The pull factor captures flows of bank loans to the domestic non-financial private sector. An increase in these flows … external demand and an improvement in the current account. Using a panel error correction specification, the estimation results … less clear-cut. The paper also shows that variations in the flows of bank loans to the non-financial private sector (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373649
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Fiscal devaluation in a monetary union : conference paper
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2014
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487256
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Fiscal devaluation in a Monetary Union
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2013
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221275
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Transmission of global financial shocks to EMU member states : the role of monetary policy and national factors
Gelman, Maria; Jochem, Axel; Reitz, Stefan - 2016
The paper analyses the transmission of global financial shocks to individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), in which monetary policy is delegated to the ECB and financial markets are fully integrated. Using a panel VAR model, we show that the asymmetric effects of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495568
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Current account adjustment in EU countries : does euro-area membership make a difference?
Herrmann, Sabine; Jochem, Axel - 2013
estimation is based on a simple autoregressive model and comes to the conclusion that current account adjustment is significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211960