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Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …

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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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Reform of the European Investment Bank: How to Upgrade the EIB’s Role in Development

Griffith-Jones, Prof. Stephany; Tyson, Judith - 2010

In this briefing paper we evaluate the performance of the EIB in its external lending and policies in relation to developing economies including its response to the financial crisis. We recommend policy changes including greater absolute levels of lending to developing economies and greater risk...

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An analysis of systemic risk in alternative securities settlement architectures

Iori, Giulia - 2004

This paper compares securities settlement gross and netting architectures. It studies settlement risk arising from exogenous operational delays and compares settlement failures between the two architectures as functions of the length of the settlement interval under different market conditions....

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In dubio pro CES

León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2010

Capital-labor substitution and total factor productivity (TFP) estimates are essential features of growth and income distribution models. In the context of a Monte Carlo exercise embodying balanced and near balanced growth, we demonstrate that the estimation of the substitution elasticity can be...

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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

demand and a loan demand model which both include the relation between the respective retail bank rates and the short … for the existence of a bank lending channel. Finally, the estimation of the Structural-VECM highlights very rich dynamics …

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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 provided by the ECB in a neutral and smooth manner, but...

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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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Measurement of contagion in banks' equity prices

Gropp, Reint; Moerman, Gerard - 2003

. Further, the paper proposes a simple metric, which is used to identify contagion from one bank to another and identify …

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