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Towards a progressive EMU fiscal governance
Álvarez Peralta, Nacho; Feigl, Georg; Koratzanis, Nasos; … - 2019
The fiscal governance of the EMU is in dire need of reform. Its current arrangements suff er from several shortcomings, most notably, the limitations they impose on national fiscal policies, steering them towards too restrictive or pro-cyclical stances; the absence of an unconditional lender of...
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Corporate credit and leverage in the EU: Recent evolution, main drivers and financial stability implications
Beck, Thorsten; Peltonen, Tuomo; Perotti, Enrico C.; … - 2023
This report presents a long-term view of the evolution of financing of EU non-financial corporations (NFCs) in recent decades. It finds a decline in NFC leverage since at least 2008, and across countries, size categories and industries. It also documents a growing role of non-bank financial...
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The effects of privatization on R&D investments and patent productivity
Munari, Federico; Sobrero, Maurizio - 2002
Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …
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Privatization and R&D performance: An empirical analysis based on Tobin's q
Munari, Federico; Oriani, Raffaele - 2002
In this paper, we analyze the impact of privatization on the firms' R&D performance. We expect that, in the early … period after privatization, path dependencies still negatively affect the efficiency of R&D operations. We test our …
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Systemic Risk Diagnostics
Schwaab, Bernd; Lucas, Andre; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2010
A macro-prudential policy maker can manage risks to financial stability only if currentand future risks can be reliably assessed. We propose a novel framework to assessfinancial system risk. Using a dynamic factor framework based on state-space methods, we model latent macro-financial and credit...
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Zinsspreads auf europäische Anleihen: Finanzmärkte verstärken Druck zu mehr Haushaltsdisziplin
Bernoth, Kerstin; Erdogan, Burcu - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 51/52, pp. 12-18
Der seit der Finanzkrise steile Anstieg der Zinsdifferenzen zwischen europäischen Staatsanleihen bringt mehrere … einpreisen. Wir finden, dass die Finanzmärkte in den Jahren vor der Finanzkrise eine recht eingeschränkte Risikowahrnehmung …
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The Janus-headed salvation: sovereign and bank credit risk premia during 2008-09
Ejsing, Jacob; Lemke, Wolfgang - 2009
As the global banking crisis intensified in the fall of 2008, governments announced comprehensive rescue packages for financial institutions. In this paper, we put the joint response of euro area bank and sovereign CDS premia under the microscope. We find that the bank rescue packages led to a...
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Fiscal policy and growth: do financial crises make a difference?
Afonso, António; Grüner, Hans Peter; Kolerus, Christina - 2010
In this paper we assess to what extent in the existence of a financial crisis, government spending can contribute to mitigate economic downturns in the short run and whether such impact differs in crisis and non crisis times. We use panel analysis for a set of OECD and non-OECD countries for the...
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Monetary policy in exceptional times
Lenza, Michele; Pill, Huw; Reichlin, Lucrezia - 2010
This paper describes the response of three central banks to the 2007-09 financial crisis: the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. In particular, the paper discusses the design, implementation and impact of so-called "non-standard" monetary policy measures focusing...
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