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We examine the dynamics of bank lending to the private sector for countries of the Euro area by applying a Markov … comovement with the development of the stock market. We interpret this as evidence for constraints in bank lending. In contrast …
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the possible conflict of interest between monetary policy and the supervision authority within the European Central Bank … addition to the structure of bank supervision, a list of independent variables is considered to explain the dependent variable …
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interest rate pass-through to bank retail rates following conventional and unconventional monetary policy shocks. The median … crisis and the coronavirus pandemic. From mid-2013 to 2015-16, the monetary policy pass-through to the bank lending rate … monetary policy shocks grows substantially since the onset of unconventional measures in 2011, changes in bank retail rates …
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We contribute to the empirical literature on the impact of shocks to bank capital in the euro area by estimating a … economy, namely a demand shock and a shock to bank capital. The main findings of the paper are as follows: i) Impulse …-response analysis shows that in response to a shock to bank capital, banks boost capital ratios by reducing their relative exposure to …
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Der seit der Finanzkrise steile Anstieg der Zinsdifferenzen zwischen europäischen Staatsanleihen bringt mehrere Mitgliedsländer der europäischen Währungsunion (EWU) unter erhebliche Refinanzierungsschwierigkeiten und wirft die Frage nach den Ursachen auf. Dieser Bericht fasst die Ergebnisse...
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This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for...
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Right from the start of the European currency union, trade imbalances could be observed in the current accounts and trade balances of the euro countries. The business cycle upswing reaching into 2008 and the strong inflow of cheap money led to a strong economic expansion especially in the...
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With the global crisis, the policy stance around the world has been shaken by massive government and central bank … financed by the monopoly supply of central bank credit. Fiscal deficits can thus be considered functional to the objective of … bank credit, thus introducing national solvency risks. This is a crucial flaw in the institutional structure of Euroland …
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There is no consensus about the causes of the reduction in business cycle volatility seen in many major economies over the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by...
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This paper is an exercise in dating the Euro area business cycle on a monthly basis. Using a quite flexible interpolation routine. we construct several monthly series of Euro area GDP, and then apply the Bry-Boschan (1971) procedure. To account for the asymmetry in growth regimes and duration...
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