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Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries
Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2001
This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470642
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Inspecting the Mechanism : Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozone
Martin, Philippe - 2014
We provide a comprehensive account of the dynamics of eurozone countries from 2000 to 2012. We analyze private leverage … government spending, and sudden stops. We then ask how eurozone countries would have fared with different policies. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458093
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How Do Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interact in the European Monetary Union?
Canzoneri, Matthew B. - 2005
Formation of the Euro area raises new questions about the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy. Using a New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) model, we show that a common monetary policy, responding to area-wide aggregates, has asymmetric effects on countries within the union, depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467632
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Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession
Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2011
This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461870
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Developing countries' financial vulnerability to the euro crisis : An event study of equity and bond markets
Aizenman, Joshua - 2012
. Just a few years after the global crisis, the eurozone sovereign debt crisis has emerged as the single biggest threat to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460631
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Ethical Foundations of Financial Regulation
Kane, Edward J. - 1997
Regulation consists of rulemaking and enforcement. Economic theory offers two complementary rationales for regulating … arise in multi- party relationships and that regulation introduces opportunities to impose rules that enhance the welfare of … discretion and choose actions for the common good. Agency-cost theories portray regulation as a way to raise the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472798
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The European Union, the Euro, and Equity Market Integration
Bekaert, Geert - 2010
At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to …, financial regulation, and interest rate differences. Importantly, we find that EU membership reduces equity market segmentation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462074
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EMU : Ready, or Not?
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471509
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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471641
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The Euro and Fiscal Policy
Fatas, Antonio - 2009
The paper provides and empirical characterization of fiscal policy in the euro area and in a group of twenty-two OECD economies over the period from 1970 until 2007. Using the cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance we document that policy in the euro area has been mildly pro-cyclical. The adoption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463925