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This paper examines the overall macroeconomic impact arising from reform in government wages and employment, at times of fiscal consolidation. Reform of these two components of the government wage bill appeared necessary for containing the deterioration of the public finances in several EU...
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This paper provides an overview of supply and demand factors influencing the availability of euro-denominated debt instruments that qualify as high-quality liquid assets (HQLA) in the euro area. The paper estimates the supply of HQLA issued by the public and private sectors as well as the...
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The paper describes the main transmission channels of the spillovers of national fiscal policies to other countries within the euro area and investigates their magnitude using different models. In the context of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), fiscal spillovers are relevant for the accurate...
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The last review of the ECB’s monetary policy strategy in 2003 followed a period of predominantly upside risks to price stability. Experience following the 2008 financial crisis has focused renewed attention on the question of how monetary and fiscal policy should best interact, in particular...
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Southern and eastern Mediterranean countries have many fiscal challenges in common with other emerging market and mature economies concerning deficit and debt reduction and the maintenance of fiscal discipline. However, most countries in the region also face some specific fiscal issues, such as...
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-making function, i.e. the ECB and the central banks of the four G7 countries outside the euro area (the US, UK, Japan and Canada). The … paper first reviews the objectives of and arrangements for central bank/government cooperation in the US, UK, Japan and …
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The paper reports the outcome of the stress-testing of liquidity risk in the TARGET2 payment system, with the study … resilience of the system, defined as the network of its participants, and the appropriateness of liquidity levels under tightened … liquidity conditions. The scenarios analysed are based on extreme shocks to the value of collateral of different levels and …
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This paper analyses the impact of lending standards for residential real estate (RRE) loans on default rates, using a novel loan-level dataset from the European DataWarehouse (EDW) that covers eight euro area countries. To the best of the authors' knowledge, this paper is the first to use, for...
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Since 2008, excess liquidity – defined as the sum of holdings of central bank reserves in excess of reserve … small, slowly changing group of credit institutions.Despite the stability of the concentration of excess liquidity in … directing flows in the period 2015-16. In addition, the more recent concentration of excess liquidity is explained by the …
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banks in resolution. It examines the provision of liquidity in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada and the … financial stability. This paper extends the existing research by zooming in on the specific topic of liquidity provision to … liquidity provision and the roles of the public budget and the central bank. The comparison also reveals that the role of fiscal …
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