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Monetary and Financial Thinking in Europe: Evidence from Four Decades of SUERF

Abraham, Jean-Paul - 2003

2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of SUERF. To mark this milestone, some time ago the Council of Management commissioned Professor Jean-Paul Abraham to write a commemorative report. His mandate was not to write a history of SUERF itself (that would be too self-indulgent) but to...

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Social protection of non-standard workers and the self-employed during the pandemic country chapters: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Sweden

Spasova, Slavina (contributor); Ghailani, Dalila (contributor) - 2021

. 2021), this edited volume comprises eight country case studies: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal …, Romania and Sweden. [...] …

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Foreign exchange market interventions as monetary policy

Post, Erik - 2006

Sweden. Overall, the predictions of the model is supported in most dimensions indicating that interventions have been used in …

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What international monetary system for a fast-changing world economy

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2011

Though the renminbi is not yet convertible, the international monetary regime has already started to move towards a 'multipolar' system, with the dollar, the Chinese currency and the euro as its key likely pillars. This shift corresponds to the long-term evolution of the balance of economic...

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Regional settlement infrastructure and currency internationalization: The case of Asia and the renminbi

Rhee, Changyong; Sumulong, Lea - 2014

The squeeze in United States dollar liquidity that emerged with the global financial crisis highlighted the risks inherent in the current global financial system. Asia was adversely affected by the crisis not only because of its dependence on trade, but also because of its heavy reliance on the...

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The threat of 'currency wars': A European perspective

Darvas, Zsolt; Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2011

The 'currency war', as it has become known, has three aspects: 1) the inflexible pegs of undervalued currencies; 2) recent attempts by floating exchange-rate countries to resist currency appreciation; 3) quantitative easing. Europe should primarily be concerned about the first issue, which...

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The Swedish external position and the Krona

Lane, Philip R. - 2006

This paper addresses the dynamics of the Swedish external position, with a particular focus on its inter-relation with the external value of the krona. We argue that financial globalisation means that a broader conceptual framework is required, whereby exchange rate fluctuations operate through...

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When countries do not do what they say: Systematic discrepancies between exchange rate regime announcements and de facto policies

Bersch, Julia; Klüh, Ulrich H. - 2007

We study the apparent disconnect between what countries announce to be their exchange rate regime and what they de facto implement. Even though discrepancies between announcements and de facto polices are frequent, there is a lack of understanding of actual patterns and underlying reasons. We...

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The East European financial crisis

Åslund, Anders - 2009

This paper discusses the global financial crisis of 2008/9 in thirteen countries, the ten new EU members that previously were communist and the three countries of Western former Soviet Union. Their problems were excessive current account deficits and private foreign debt, currency mismatches,...

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The process of European monetary integration: a comparison of the Belgian and Italian approaches

Maes, Ivo; Quaglia, Lucia - 2003

This paper analyses and compares the roles which Belgium and Italy have played in the process of European monetary … of the Belgian and Italian EMU strategies and the concrete contributions made by Belgium and Italy. Overall, these two … European Act and the realisation of EMU, whereas Italy was mainly active in the 1980s. This assessment of the Belgian and …

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