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Reverse causality in global current accounts
Schnabl, Gunther; Freitag, Stephan - 2010
Germany as center countries with rising / high current account deficits (US) and surpluses (Germany). These are matched by … analysis extends from 1981-2008, the results for Germany mostly capture the situation before the euro was created. - Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973544
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Sudden stops and asset purchase programmes in the euro area
Fabiani, Josefina; Fidora, Michael; Setzer, Ralph; … - 2021
This paper analyses the incidence and severity of sudden stops in euro area countries before and after the introduction of the ECB's asset purchase programmes. We define sudden stops as abrupt declines in private net financial inflows, i.e. total flows adjusted for EU and IMF loans and changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643263
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A panel VAR analysis of macro-financial imbalances in the EU
Comunale, Mariarosaria - 2017
We investigate the interactions across current account misalignments, Real Effective Exchange Rate misalignments and financial (or output) gaps within EU countries. We apply panel techniques, including a Bayesian panel VAR, to 27 EU members over the period 1994-2012. We find that, for the euro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637376
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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794175
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Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity
Bremus, Franziska - 2013
. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then … concentration is associated with a positive and significant relationship between bank-level credit growth and aggregate growth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459568
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Structural asymmetries and financial imbalances in the eurozone
Jaccard, Ivan; Smets, Frank - 2017
major source of cross-country heterogeneity in the eurozone. We develop a two-country model with incomplete international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662924
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Incentive-Compatible Unemployment Reinsurance for the Euro Area
Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Mojon, Benoît; Silva, Luiz … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We model a reinsurance mechanism for the national unemployment insurance programs of euro area member states. The risk-sharing scheme we analyze is designed to smooth country-level unemployment risk and expenditures around each country's median level, so that participation and contributions...
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Euro area monetary policy and TARGET balances: a trilogy
Eisenschmidt, Jens; Kedan, Danielle; Schmitz, Martin - 2022
excess liquidity is likely to persist on account of higher demand for central bank reserves compared to the pre-crisis period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013448708
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
estimate only moderate effects on the financial sector: the share of Non Performing Loans on bank balance sheets would increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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The implications of global and domestic credit cycles for emerging market economies : measures of finance-adjusted output gaps
Grintzalis, Ioannis; Lodge, David; Manu, Ana-Simona - 2017
We present estimates of finance-adjusted output gaps which incorporate the information on the domestic and global credit cycles for a sample of emerging market economies (EMEs). Following recent BIS research, we use a state-space representation of an HP filter augmented with a measure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637326