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How does the ECB allot liquidity in its weekly main refinancing operations?

Ejerskov, Steen; Moss, Clara Martin; Stracca, Livio - 2003

This paper provides a simple weekly model of the regular supply of liquidity in the euro area, with a view to … understanding the functioning of the euro area money market. The main result of the analysis is that liquidity has normally been … deviations of the overnight rate from the main refinancing rate. Moreover the paper finds that liquidity has affected the …

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Measurement of contagion in banks' equity prices

Gropp, Reint; Moerman, Gerard - 2003

This paper uses the co-incidence of extreme shocks to banksu0092 risk to examine within country and across country contagion among large EU banks. Banksu0092 risk is measured by the first difference of weekly distances to default and abnormal returns. Using Monte Carlo simulations, the paper...

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Deposit insurance, moral hazard and market monitoring

Gropp, Reint; Vesala, Jukka - 2004

The paper analyses the relationship between deposit insurance, debt-holder monitoring, and risk taking. In a stylised banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non-deposit creditors. Testing the model using EU bank level data...

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Volatility of interest rates in the euro area

Cassola, Nuno; Morana, Claudio - 2003

liquidity effects are cyclical, confined to the end of reserve maintenance periods, and are not transmitted along the money …

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The euro area financial system

Hartmann, Philipp; Maddaloni, Angela; Manganelli, Simone - 2003

Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...

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Optimal allotment policy in the Eurosystem's main refinancing operations

Ewerhart, Christian; Cassola, Nuno; Ejerskov, Steen; … - 2003

" benchmark allotment rule, with the effect of not alleviating a temporary liquidity shortage in the banking system. This is … the present paper, we show that when the monetary authority cares for both liquidity and interest rate conditions, the … threshold level for the accumulated aggregate liquidity position in the banking system prior to the last operation in a given …

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Finance and growth in the EU

De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003

This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...

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A monthly monetary model with banking intermediation for the euro area

Bruggeman, Annick; Donnay, Marie - 2003

This monthly monetary model for the euro area is gradually constructed from its two constituting components: a money demand and a loan demand model which both include the relation between the respective retail bank rates and the short-term market interest rate. Eventually, the encompassing...

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Monetary policy transmission in the euro area

Angeloni, Ignazio; Ehrmann, Michael - 2003

We examine the euro area monetary policy transmission process using post-1999 data, with two main questions in mind: has it changed after u0096 and because of u0096 EMU and, if so, is it becoming homogeneous across countries. Given the data limitations, we concentrate on three blocks of...

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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system

Manna,Michele - 2004

This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...

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