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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan

Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003

United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects …

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Price stability and monetary policy effectiveness when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero

Coenen, Günter; Orphanides, Athanasios; Wieland, Volker - 2003

This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We ﬁnd that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the...

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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …

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The euro area financial system

Hartmann, Philipp; Maddaloni, Angela; Manganelli, Simone - 2003

Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...

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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system

Manna,Michele - 2004

This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...

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