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Financial Integration of New EU Member States
Cappiello, Lorenzo; Kadareja, Arjan; Gerard, Bruno; … - 2021
This study assesses the degree of financial integration for a selected number of new EU member states between … themselves and with the euro zone. Within the framework of a factor model for market returns, we measure integration as the … amount of variance explained by the common factor relative to the local components. We show that this measure of integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317420
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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper tests for heterogeneity among committee members in three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120227
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Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Performance in the Euro Area Countries : A Model-Based Assessment
Gomes, Sandra - 2011
We quantitatively assess the macroeconomic effects of country-specific supply-side reforms in the euro area by simulating EAGLE, a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model. We consider reforms in the labor and services markets of Germany (or, alternatively, Portugal) and the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127922
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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the Euro Area : NMCM - With Boundedly Rational Learning Expectations
Dieppe, Alistair - 2011
Rational expectations has been the dominant way to model expectations, but the literature has quickly moved to a more realistic assumption of boundedly rational learning where agents are assumed to use only a limited set of information to form their expectations. A standard assumption is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128293
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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the Euro Area : NMCM - Simulated with Rational Expectations
Dieppe, Alistair - 2011
The model presented here is a New estimated medium-scale Multi-Country Model (NMCM) which covers the five largest euro area countries and is used for forecasting and scenarios analysis at the European Central Bank. The model has a tight theoretical structure which allows for non-unitary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128296
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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder? Estimating Cross Country Differences in Product Quality Using Eurostat's COMEXT Trade Database
Pula, Gabor - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129033
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Financial Advice and Stock Market Participation
Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2011
We introduce professional financial advice in households' choice to hold risky financial assets. Consistent with the predictions from a formal model, we present evidence that households' trust in financial advice only matters when their perceived own financial capability is low. Instead, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130159
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Does the Euro Make a Difference? Spatio-Temporal Transmission of Global Shocks to Real Effective Exchange Rates in an Infinite VAR
Bussière, Matthieu - 2011
This paper provides evidence on whether the creation of the euro has changed the way global turbulences affect euro area and other economies. Specifically, it considers the impact of global shocks on the competitiveness of individual euro area countries and assesses whether their responses to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130602
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Corporate Bond Spreads and Real Activity in the Euro Area - Least Angle Regression Forecasting and the Probability of the Recession
Buchmann, Marco - 2011
This paper aims at providing a detailed analysis of the leading indicator properties of corporate bond spreads for real economic activity in the euro area. In- and out-of-sample predictive content of corporate bond spreads are examined along three dimensions: the bonds' quality, their term to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131847
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Euro Area Labour Markets : Different Reaction to Shocks?
Bruha, Jan - 2011
A small labour market model for the six largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium) is estimated in a state-space framework. The model entails, in the long run, four driving forces: a trend labour force component, a trend labour productivity component, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132048