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(When) should a non-euro country join the banking union?

Belke, Ansgar; Dobrzańska, Anna; Gros, Daniel; Smaga, Pawel - 2016

We analyze the benefits and costs of a non-euro country opting-in to the banking union. The decision to opt-in depends on the comparison between the assessment of the banking union attractiveness and the robustness of a national safety net. The benefits of opting-in are still only potential and...

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Driven by the markets? : ECB sovereign bond purchases and the securities markets programme

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to … assets as collateral and by outright purchases in the central bank balance sheet artificially keeps the asset prices up and …

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Did interest rates at the zero lower bound affect lending of commercial banks? : evidence for the euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian - 2019

The paper examines the bank lending activities of banks in a low interest rate environment. External financing of small …- and medium-sized enterprises in the euro area primarily takes place via bank loans and not through capital markets. Based … on the Bankscope database, bank balance sheet data is utilized. Control variables are included, such as for the system of …

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Finance access of SMEs : what role for the ECB?

Belke, Ansgar - 2013

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … Bank. …

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Exit strategies and their impact on the Euro area : a model based view

Belke, Ansgar - 2014

exit from unconventional monetary policies (UMP) by the Fed, which, appears to be the first central bank to lay out an …

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How much fiscal backing must the ECB have? : the euro area is not the Philippines

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

The ECB has accepted increasing amounts of rubbish collateral since the crisis started leading to exposure to serious private sector credit risk (i.e. default risk) on its collateralised lending and reverse operations ("repo"). This has led some commentators to argue that the ECB needs "fiscal...

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Financial crisis, global liquidity and monetary exit strategies

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

We develop a roadmap of how the ECB should further reduce the volume of money (money supply) and roll back credit easing in order to prevent inflation. The exits should be step-bystep rather than one-off. Communicating about the exit strategy must be an integral part of the exit strategy. Price...

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(How) do the ECB and the fed react to financial market uncertainty? : the Taylor rule in times of crisis

Belke, Ansgar; Klose, Jens - 2010

We assess differences that emerge in Taylor rule estimations for the Fed and the ECB before and after the start of the subprime crisis. For this purpose, we apply an explicit estimate of the equilibrium real interest rate and of potential output in order to account for variations within these...

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Equilibrium real interest rates, secular stagnation, and the financial cycle : empirical evidence for euro-area member countries

Belke, Ansgar; Klose, Jens - 2018

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic growth, a phenomenon known as secular stagnation? We tackle this question by estimating equilibrium real interest rates and comparing them to actual real rates. Since the...

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