into the euro area. This paper addresses the question of whether a reduction of public deficits, such as imposed by the … Maastricht fiscal criteria, is a necessary or useful step on the road to the adoption of the euro. The question is addressed by …

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short …

euro area, and investigates their linkages in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime … of the euro and resulting in lower long-run uncertainty. It also appears that the direction of causality has been … reversed, and that in the euro period the Friedman-Ball link is empirically supported, consistently with the idea that the ECB …

unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit …) during the crisis, credit supply restrictions to firms in the Euro area and tighter standards for mortgage loans in the US …

The Euro area economic activity and banking sector have shown substantial fragility over the last years with remarkable … affected the transmission mechanism of the single Euro area monetary policy during the crisis until the end of 2011. The …

the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more customer deposits are negatively affected by negative rates, as …

We model economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the four largest euro area countries by applying machine learning …

crisis, and of the provision of central bank liquidity during the crisis. Exploiting the euro area institutional setting for …

We perform a robust estimation of the Phillips curve in the euro area using a battery of 630 theory-driven models. We …