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Overall, the ECB managed monetary policy quite satisfactory in the first phase of EMU. Nevertheless, this paper asks whether monetary policy could not have been improved. In the last three years, Euroland was confronted with the first external shock. Oil prices increased considerably, leading to...
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This paper estimates a linearised DSGE model for the euro area. The model is New Keynesian and allows for a role for …
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The move to monetary union in Europe led to convergence of interest rates among the participating countries. This was associated with notable cross-country differences in the behaviour of key macroeconomic aggregates. Compared to the low interest rate countries, former high interest rate...
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the euro area. Equally importantly, economies with a weaker track record in terms of economic and institutional quality … adverse political developments at home, a potential drawback is that it may provide weaker market discipline for domestic …
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This paper examines bond and stock market volatility reactions in the euro area and the US following their respective … the US and euro area bond and stock markets are used. A strong upsurge in intraday volatility at the time of the release … policy path. The observed strong discrepancy between asset price reactions in the US and in the euro area following monetary …
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This paper presents a systematic empirical relationship between money and subsequent prices and output, using US, euro …
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is constrained by the zero lower bound. Two main findings stand out. First, in all the countries we analyse (U.S., Euro …
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transmission processes at the systemic level. We use the euro area financial accounts (flow of funds) data to construct a sector … leverage and asset volatility. We conclude that the bilateral cross-sector exposures in the euro area financial system …
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