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Return and volatility spillovers: evidence from Indian exchange rates
Kumar, Manish - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 4, pp. 371-387
This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...
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The sovereign debt crisis - a transdisciplinary approach
Pilkington, Marc - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 369-397
We have chosen to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to debt, leading to a transdisciplinary analysis of sovereign debt. Disciplinary fields as varied as logic, accounting, finance, psychology, geopolitics, economics, statistics, ethics, rhetoric and political discourse analysis are mobilised...
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The economic diplomacy of sovereign debt crises: Latin America and the euro-zone compared
Bayne, Nicholas - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 4-18
This article compares today's euro-zone debt crisis, in terms of economic diplomacy, with the earlier crisis in Latin … total failure to reconcile tensions in the euro-zone crisis. Growing imbalances between debtors and creditors led to serious … loss of confidence. Early mistakes over Greece fed contagion throughout the euro-zone. No institution acted as neutral …
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The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies on Bank Soundness
Lambert, Frederic; Ueda, Kenichi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Unconventional monetary policy is often assumed to benefit banks. However, we find little supporting evidence. Rather, we find some evidence for heightened medium-term risks. First, in an event study using a novel instrument for monetary policy surprises, we do not detect clear effects of...
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Causes and implications of the low level of the risk-free interest rate
Boeckx, J.; Cordemans, N.; Dossche, M. - In: Economic Review (2013) II, pp. 63-88
In most advanced economies, risk-free interest rates – i.e. the rates applicable to assets with minimal credit risk – have fallen to historically low levels over the recent period, in both nominal and real terms. These interest rates are particularly important because they serve as the basis...
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Monetary policy in the United States and the euro area during the crisis
Cordemans, N.; Ide, S. - In: Economic Review (2012) I, pp. 39-63
In the wake of the two longer-term refinancing operations with a maturity of three years conducted in December 2011 and February 2012, amounts placed on the Eurosystem’s deposit facility surged to unprecedented high levels of around € 800 billion. The article clarifies how this high recourse...
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Speed of Adjustment to Selected Labour Market and Tax Reforms
Mourougane, Annabelle; Vogel, Lukas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
This paper examines the nature and the length of economic adjustments to selected structural reforms, drawing on a variety of approaches: descriptive analysis and simulations using Dynamic General Equilibrium and macro-economic neo-Keynesian models. The descriptive analysis suggests that the...
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Épidémies et populations
In: Annales de démographie historique : ADH 1997 (1998)
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The Global Impact of the Systemic Economies and MENA Business Cycles
Cashin, Paul; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper analyzes spillovers from macroeconomic shocks in systemic economies (China, the Euro Area, and the United States) to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as well as outward spillovers from a GDP shock in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and MENA oil exporters to...
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Bankenunion: Ist eine gemeinsame europäische Bankenaufsicht ein neues Instrument der Bankenrettung?
Burghof, Hans-Peter; Speyer, Bernhard; Kemmer, Michael; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 65 (2012) 14, pp. 03-25
In der Debatte über die Zukunft der Eurozone wird auch das Konzept der Bankenunion diskutiert. Hans-Peter Burghof …
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