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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 …
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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...
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trends. It finds that, all sample countries except Germany applied expansionary expenditure policies. This resulted in much …
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account and interest rate. Examining the VAR impulse responses for Germany, Italy and Spain we find that investment shocks and …
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variables for financial development, central bank independence, and the inflation rate preceding the cycles. These findings may …
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'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 markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …
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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...
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Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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major source of cross-country heterogeneity in the eurozone. We develop a two-country model with incomplete international …
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