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This paper studies the determinants of the euro exchange rate during the European sovereign debt crisis, allowing a … role for macroeconomic fundamentals, policy actions and the public debate by policy makers. It finds that the euro exchange …
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We propose a model for analyzing euro area trade based on the interaction between macroeconomic and trade variables …
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We explain the role of the Phillips Curve in the analysis of the economic outlook and the formulation of monetary policy at the ECB. First, revisiting the structural Phillips Curve, we highlight the challenges in recovering structural parameters from reduced-form estimates and relate the...
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Price inflation in the euro area has been stable and low since the Global Financial Crisis, despite notable changes in … remained stubbornly stable and low in the euro area over the past two decades. For this purpose, we exploit a rich firm …-level database to show that over the period 1995–2018 the aggregate markup in the euro area has been on the rise, mainly on account …
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We estimate the response of product-level retail prices to changes in the corporate tax rates paid by wholesale producers (pass-through). Under perfect competition in goods and factor markets, pass-through of corporate taxes should be zero, and their incidence mainly falls on factor prices. We...
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We study exchange rate pass-through (ERPT), i.e., the impact of exchange rate movements on inflation, focusing on euro …
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This paper analyses the impact of productivity developments in the United States and the euro area on the euro … productivity proxies. Our results indicate that the extent to which productivity can explain the euro depreciation varies with the … used the former to assess productivity developments, this might thus have contributed to the weakness of the euro in 2000 …
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We apply the Campbell-Shiller return decomposition to exchange rate returns and fundamentals in a stationary panel vector autoregression framework. The return decomposition is then used to analyse how different investor segments react to news as captured by the different return components. The...
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We estimate the elasticity of substitution of a country's imports, and that of its exports on the world market, for EU countries using sector level trade data. We present a new empirical strategy based on the identification scheme by Feenstra (1994), which enables the estimation of elasticities...
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