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On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
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This paper investigates whether the degree and the nature of economic and monetary policy interdependence between the United States and the euro area have changed with the advent of EMU. Using real-time data, it addresses this issue from the perspective of financial markets by analysing the...
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Central banks have had an important role in maintaining financial stability through their lender of last resort role. As lender of last resort, the central bank is given enormous power which is normally tempered by a variety of limits. In the most recent crises in both the United States and euro...
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the period 1990-2002 to assess the effectiveness of European merger control. The basic idea is to relate announcement and … decision abnormal returns. Under a set of four maintained assumptions, merger control might be interpreted to be effective if … rents accruing due to the increased market power observed around the merger announcement are reversed by the antitrust …
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The need for structural reforms in the euro area has often been advocated. These reforms would improve the welfare of euro area citizens and also, as a welcome side-effect, facilitate the conduct of monetary policy. Against this background, a particularly relevant question that can be posed is...
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This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...
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Die Schulden- und Vertrauenskrise in Europa ist das Ergebnis einer ineffizienten Kapitalallokation und unzureichender Institutionen für die Reaktion auf die sich dadurch ergebenden Folgen. Im Zuge des europäischen Integrationsprozesses haben internationale Kapitalströme in einigen Ländern zu...
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Vom Euro werden verschiedene Geschichten erzählt. Entscheidend ist das theoretische und wohl auch das politische Vorverständnis. Beispiele dafür sind die beiden Manifeste der Euro-Skeptiker (11. Mai 1992 und 9. Februar 1998) - genau genommen müsste man von Skeptikern bezüglich des...
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