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The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999-2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...
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Using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru, we document that four main types of commercial credit—asset-based loans …
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budget balance in France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. We try to uncover past trends behind the development of public …
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This paper documents producer price setting in 6 countries of the euro area: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium and …
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How do housing bubbles affect other economic sectors? We show that in the presence of collateral constraints, a bubble initially raises housing credit demand and crowds out credit to non-housing firms. If the bubble lasts, however, housing credit repayments raise banks' net worth and expand...
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We estimate the sticky information Phillips curve model of Mankiw and Reis (2002) using survey expectations of professional forecasters from four major European economies. Our estimates imply that inflation expectations in France, Germany and the United Kingdom are updated about once a year, in...
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France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The scenario analysis suggests that the reduction in bond yields due to OMT announcements … is associated with a significant increase in real activity, credit, and prices in Italy and Spain with relatively muted …
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Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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all loans granted in Spain. We find that during the period analyzed both worse economic and tighter monetary conditions …
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We document the twin crisis that affected Spain in the mid-1860s. First, we trace back its origins to the international … crisis of 1864-66. Next, we describe the particular banking sector of Spain, characterized by the coexistence of the Bank of … Spain with multiple local banks of issue. We analyze the microeconomic behavior of each bank in response to the crisis and …
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