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This analysis examines aggregation bias in the case of the interest rate pass-through in the Republic of Macedonia. By using bank-level data, the authors investigate whether there are heterogeneities and asymmetries in the size and speed of the adjustment of lending rates to changes in the cost...
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-Saxon" model. The data suggest otherwise. Moreover, the corporate sector in Europe has a much lower capacity to finance investment … from internal sources of funds, which implies that a recovery of investment in Europe will be much more difficult than in … be much larger in Europe than in the USA. …
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Turkey already by the EC association agreement of 1963. The world-political events pivoting on Afghanistan have greatly … improved the chances for Turkey’s admission to the EC—despite all the economic problems which Turkish membership involves for … the EC and for Turkey itself. Prof. Gumpel analyses these problems here. …
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The ECB’s recently launched Expanded Asset Purchasing Programme is similar to the quantitative easing programmes undertaken by the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan. While theory suggests that quantitative easing can stimulate economic growth and spur inflation via...
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By pumping trillions of euros into the eurozone’s financial system, the ECB's quantitative easing programme intends to indirectly alter the private sector’s borrowing and spending behaviour. After more than a year since its initial inception, a review of the programme's impact reveals that...
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Although regional development banking is a recent institution in the field of international cooperation, the author asks the question whether in the light of current and possible events in the 1970s its fundamental policies are appropriate to those developments in particular, and to economic...
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The World Bank is a genuine investment agency. This fact seems to be self-evident, yet not fully realized by a larger public. At present, the World Bank (IBRD), together with its affiliate, the International Development Association (IDA), is also a multilateral development institution, the...
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