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Seit seiner Einführung am 1. Januar 1999 hat der Euro über ein Viertel seines Außenwertes verloren. Nachdem alle auf …, hat die These, dass die Schwäche darauf beruht, dass es bisher nur einen virtuellen Euro gibt, an Glaubwürdigkeit gewonnen … Finance« zu erklären. Aus der Sicht dieser Theorie könnte die Bargeldeinführung zum Vorteil des Euro ausschlagen, aber mit …
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No empirical evidence has yet emerged for the existence of a robust positive relationship between financial openness and economic growth. This paper argues that a key reason for the elusive evidence is the presence of a time-varying relationship between openness and growth over time: countries...
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We assess monetary convergence preceding the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) through Kalman filtering estimates of the risk premium of eleven forward exchange rates of European and non-European currencies. Since all participating currencies are in effect identical from...
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Vortrag anlässlich der 52. ifo Jahresversammlung zum Thema Europäische Währungsunion
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We add to the literature on the influence of the global financial cycle (GFC) and gyrations in capital flows. First, we build a new measure of the GFC based on a structural factor approach, which incorporates theoretical priors in its definition. This measure can also be decomposed in a...
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Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the...
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-border bank lending in US dollars, and particularly in euro, is highly concentrated in a small number of countries. The UK is … central in the international network of loans denominated in euro, although there are tentative signs that this role has … optimisation strategies. The empirical analysis suggests that euro-denominated loans face the "tyranny of distance", in line with …
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Bulgaria and Romania are neighbouring countries, which have always been rivals. Following the decision on EU enlargement to include Bulgaria and Romania (late 1999) and with membership negotiations already started (2004), the race between the two countries gained momentum and comparisons of...
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This paper uses data from a large survey of firms across 26 transition countries to examine the determinants of trust in the transition process. We first introduce a new measure of trust between firms: the level of prepayment demanded by suppliers from their customers in advance of delivery....
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Some ten years ago, Michael Dooley (Dooley, 1997; Dooley, 2000) put forward an insurance model of currency crises, which after some modifications gives a good theoretical basis for explanation of the overall dynamics of the post communist transformation and diversity across countries and periods....
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