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The paper applies standard public choice reasoning to the negotiations on EU enlargement and the Treaty of Nice. The … present EU countries are respected. Decisive actors in the West are the members of the European Parliament, individuals in … post-entry position of new members. The Intergovernmental Conference is reinterpreted as an opportunity of EU-15 actors to …
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We use event study regressions to compare the impact of EU monetary versus fiscal policy announcements on government … bond spreads of ten euro member countries. Our motivation is to evaluate which of the two players – the ECB or the EU … only for the announcement of the ‘Next Generation EU’ program. In contrast, a temporary relaxation of European fiscal rules …
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Since March 2020, the Eurosystem has been purchasing government bonds under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP). The PEPP was set up as a non-standard policy measure to encounter the economic and financial consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and is an additional program to the...
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The ECB Council has to take a decision on the future of its asset purchase programmes as the monetary crisis support that was appropriate in the early phase of the pandemic needs to be adjusted to new circumstances. The changing environment is characterized by an advanced recovery from the...
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The ECB is about to discontinue its net asset purchases. In December 2021, the ECB Council had already decided to end net purchases under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) by the end of March 2022. Given the very high and persistent inflation, recent remarks from ECB board members...
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In this analysis, we investigate ECB communication by analyzing more than 3,800 speeches from 1999 until 2022. The study measures the attention which ECB Council members pay to various implicit and explicit monetary policy objectives. While price stability, according to the Maastricht Treaty, is...
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age, retail financial markets in the EU are heavily fragmented and the consumers pay a large price for this fragmentation …. This also weakens the growth perspective of EU and its international role. Explanations originate both from natural and …
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International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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There is a growing empirical literature studying whether fiscal rules reduce borrowing costs. Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether these rules are effective genuinely or just because they mirror fiscal preferences of politicians and voters. In our analysis of European bond spreads,...
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A mechanism to restructure the debt of an insolvent euro country is a missing element in the emerging institutional architecture of the euro area. The introduction of an insolvency proce-dure for sovereigns faces a dilemma: In the foreseeable future, its introduction would risk pushing Europe...
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