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Constraining and enabling factors of a successful regional policy in Europe
Fratesi, Ugo - 2024
Recent papers show that the impact of Cohesion Policy is not uniform in space but larger, smaller or insignificant … often larger in those regions which are less in need of support. In terms of policy consequence, cohesion policy should … cohesion on the other. Lagging regions will also require interventions creating framework conditions, and those territorial …
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Multinational banks’ deleveraging in the crisis driven by pre-crisis characteristics and behavior
Frey, Rainer - 2015
After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks’ assets with a focus on foreign claims took place. For the largest 67 German banking groups, we find that both their characteristics and behavior in the pre-crisis episode had repercussions for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299079
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The intraday interest rate : what’s that?
Abbassi, Puriya; Fecht, Falko; Tischer, Johannes - 2015
We study the intraday interest rate in a CCP-based GC pooling repo market and its key determinants. Since collateral used in this market is identical to collateral eligible for the daylight overdraft facility of the Eurosystem, any intraday rate in this market cannot be a result of collateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308459
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A single composite financial stress indicator and its real impact in the euro area
Islami, Mevlud; Kurz-Kim, Jeong-Ryeol - 2013
In this paper, we construct a single composite financial stress indicator (FSI) which aims to predict developments in the real economy in the euro area. Our FSI was shown to perform better than the Euro STOXX 50 volatility index for the recent banking crisis and the euro-area sovereign debt...
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How central is central counterparty clearing? : a deep dive into a European repo market during the crisis
Ebner, André; Fecht, Falko; Schulz, Alexander - 2016
Repo markets offering central counterparty (CCP) clearing and anonymized trading were remarkably resilient during the recent crises. We use the full transaction level dataset on all repo trades on Eurex Repo, including identifiers for market participants, to provide a detailed description of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483061
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Equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the great recession and the European sovereign debt crisis
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Liu, Estelle X.; Schmittmann, … - 2013
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
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Current account adjustment in EU countries : does euro-area membership make a difference?
Herrmann, Sabine; Jochem, Axel - 2013
The paper evaluates current account dynamics in countries with different exchange rate regimes within the EU. In this … flexibility of exchange rates and interest rates. The sample covers annual data for 27 EU countries from 1994 to 2011. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211960
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Liquidity provision as a monetary policy tool : the ECB's non-standard measures after the financial crisis
Quint, Dominic; Tristani, Oreste - 2017
We study the macroeconomic consequences of the money market tensions associated with the financial crisis in the euro area. In a structural VAR, we identify a liquidity shock rooted in the interbank market and use its impulse response functions to calibrate key parameters of a Smets and Wouters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764878
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Monetary transmission right from the start : the (dis)connection netween the money market and the ECB’s main refinancing rates
Abbassi, Puriya; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
The relation between the ECB's main refinancing (MRO) rates and the money market is key for the monetary transmission process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO auctions. Our results confirm a stabilizing level...
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German and the rest of euro area fiscal policy during the crisis
Gadatsch, Niklas; Hauzenberger, Klemens; Stähler, Nikolai - 2015
We present the estimated large-scale three-region DSGE model GEAR picturing Germany, the Euro Area and the Rest of the world. Compared to existing models of this type, GEAR incorporates a comprehensive fiscal block, involuntary unemployment and a complex international structure. We use the model...
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