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Does it Pay to Have the Euro? Italy's Politics and Financial Markets under the Lira and the Euro

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009

There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutions are fundamental for a country's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 has helped insulate Italy's financial...

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A Financial Systemic Stress Index for Greece

Louzis, Dimitrios P. - 2013

The paper develops a financial systemic stress index (FSSI) for Greece. We present a methodology for constructing and …, conducted among financial experts, in order to construct a benchmark chronology of financial crises for Greece, which in turn is …

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The Euro Area Sovereign Debt Crisis : Safe Haven, Credit Rating Agencies and the Spread of the Fever from Greece, Ireland and Portugal

De Santis, Roberto A. - 2012

from Greece. Specifically, higher risk aversion has increased the demand for the Bund and this is behind the pricing of all … key role in the developments of the spreads for Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Finally, the rating downgrade in … Greece has contributed to developments in spreads of countries with weaker fiscal fundamentals: Ireland, Portugal, Italy …

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Fiscal policy and the Great Recession in the Euro Area

Coenen, Günter - 2012

How much did fiscal policy contribute to euro area real GDP growth during the Great Recession? We estimate that discretionary fiscal measures have increased annualized quarterly real GDP growth during the crisis by up to 1.6 percentage points. We obtain our result by using an extended version of...

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Economic Crises and the Eligiblity for the Lender of Last Resort : Evidence from 19th Century France

Bignon, Vincent - 2017

This paper shows that a central bank can more efficiently mitigate economic crises when it broadens eligibility for its discount facility to any safe asset or solvent agent. We use difference-in-differences panel regressions and emulate crises by studying how defaults of banks and...

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The Employment Consequences of SMEs’ Credit Constraints in the Wake of the Great Recession

Cornille, David - 2017

This article takes advantage of access to confidential matched bank-firm data relative to the Belgian economy to investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the wake of the Great Recession. Variability in banks'...

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Forecasting the Covid-19 Recession and Recovery : Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Foroni, Claudia - 2020

We consider simple methods to improve the growth nowcasts and forecasts obtained by mixed frequency MIDAS and UMIDAS models with a variety of indicators during the Covid-19 crisis and recovery period, such as combining forecasts across various specifications for the same model and/or across...

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Flight to Liquidity and the Great Recession

Radde, Sören - 2014

This paper argues that counter-cyclical liquidity hoarding by financial intermediaries may strongly amplify business cycles. It develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which banks operate subject to agency problems and funding liquidity risk in their inter- mediation activity....

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Household Heterogeneity in the Euro Area Since the Onset of the Great Recession

Ampudia, Miguel - 2014

We extend household-level data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey using aggregate series and micro-simulations to investigate heterogeneity in the euro area. We quantify shocks to wealth, income and financial pressure faced by various categories of households since the onset of...

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European Firm Adjustment During Times of Economic Crisis

Fabiani, Silvia - 2015

This paper exploits a unique cross-country, firm-level survey to study the responses of European firms to the sharp demand and credit contraction triggered by the global Great Recession of 2009. The analysis reveals that cost reduction — particularly labour cost reduction through the...

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