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This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...
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This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320908
While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarises the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention spiral resulting from its bid to manage the crisis. It also...
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the Balassa model, the paper calculates a minimum aggregate inflation rate which is compatible with the requirement that … no country face a deflation. This minimum aggeragate inflation rate is 0.94% in the euro-11 countries and 1.13% in an …
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While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial … markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper … compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of …
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Druckerpresse den Patienten am Leben zu halten. Die Folgen: Nullzinsen, immense Staatsverschuldung und eine drohende Inflation … immense Risiken. Staatsverschuldung, Negativzinsen, Inflation IBM ein giftiger Cocktail. Die Schulden der Euroländer sind …
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The paper argues that Lucas overestimates the Friedman-Bailey type of welfare cost of inflation and neglects other … of Lucas? estimate. The neglected welfare effects of inflation include an adverse Baumol-Tobin effect on growth and … between inflation, relative prices and structural change …
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