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We study the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Euro Area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other countries, such as the United States, over the two-year period 2020-21. Our model-based calibration exercises deliver four key results: 1) Compositional effects - the switch from...
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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transposition dates of EU-wide legislation, we find that high trust regions in countries who harmonized capital markets sooner have … very large firm-level dataset from EU countries over time, we construct a measure of "deep" financial integration at the …
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Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral banking linkages among twenty industrial countries in the...
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Obstfeld and Taylor (2004). We find evidence that capital market integration within the EU is less than what is implied by … theoretical benchmarks and also less than what is found for U.S. states. We ask - why is this the case? Using country-level data … regions. We find regions, where the level of confidence and trust is high, are more financially integrated with each other …
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We quantify the role of financial factors that have contributed to sluggish investment in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 crisis. Using a big data approach, we match the firms to their banks based on banking relationships in 8 European countries over time, obtaining over 2 million...
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We estimate channels of international risk sharing between European Monetary Union (EMU), European Union, and other OECD countries 1992-2007. We focus on risk sharing through savings, factor income flows, and capital gains. Risk sharing through factor income and capital gains was close to zero...
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