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Testing the shape of EMU term structure of interest rates
Ruiz-Dotras, Elisabet; Bolance-Losilla, Catalina; … - In: International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives 1 (2010) 4, pp. 422-437
The creation of EMU raises the question whether the common monetary policy has the same impact in all member countries. We analyse the convergence of interest rates in four major EMU countries from 1999 to 2007. We suggest to test the convergence of the interest rates with the full term...
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Das Public Kapital: How Much Would Higher German Public Investment Help Germany and the Euro Area?
Elekdag, Selim; Muir, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Given the backdrop of pressing infrastructure needs, this paper argues that higher German public investment would not only stimulate domestic demand in the near term and reduce the current account surplus, but would also raise output over the longer-run as well as generate beneficial regional...
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Return and volatility spillovers: evidence from Indian exchange rates
Kumar, Manish - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 4, pp. 371-387
This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...
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The sovereign debt crisis - a transdisciplinary approach
Pilkington, Marc - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 2 (2011) 4, pp. 369-397
We have chosen to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to debt, leading to a transdisciplinary analysis of sovereign debt. Disciplinary fields as varied as logic, accounting, finance, psychology, geopolitics, economics, statistics, ethics, rhetoric and political discourse analysis are mobilised...
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The economic diplomacy of sovereign debt crises: Latin America and the euro-zone compared
Bayne, Nicholas - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 4-18
This article compares today's euro-zone debt crisis, in terms of economic diplomacy, with the earlier crisis in Latin … total failure to reconcile tensions in the euro-zone crisis. Growing imbalances between debtors and creditors led to serious … loss of confidence. Early mistakes over Greece fed contagion throughout the euro-zone. No institution acted as neutral …
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Peripheral Europe's debt and German wages: the role of wage policy in the Euro area
Stockhammer, Engelbert - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 83-96
The paper argues that the Greek debt crisis, as well as those of other Southern European countries and Ireland, has to be seen in macroeconomic context. The sum of the public sector balance, the (domestic) private sector balance and the current account deficit (or equivalently: the capital...
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WAS ERKLÄRT DEN AUßENHANDEL DER DEUTSCHEN AGRAR- UND ERNÄHRUNGSWIRTSCHAFT? EINE ÖKONOMETRISCHE ANALYSE AUF BASIS DES GRAVITATIONSMODELLS
Dreyer, Heiko - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012
In diesem Beitrag wird der deutsche Außenhandel mit Produkten der Agrar- und Ernährungswirtschaft in einem Gravitationsmodell analysiert. Ziel ist es, die relevanten Bestimmungsgründe für den Außenhandel mit diesen Produkten zu identifizieren und zu quantifizieren. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt in...
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The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies on Bank Soundness
Lambert, Frederic; Ueda, Kenichi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
Unconventional monetary policy is often assumed to benefit banks. However, we find little supporting evidence. Rather, we find some evidence for heightened medium-term risks. First, in an event study using a novel instrument for monetary policy surprises, we do not detect clear effects of...
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Causes and implications of the low level of the risk-free interest rate
Boeckx, J.; Cordemans, N.; Dossche, M. - In: Economic Review (2013) II, pp. 63-88
In most advanced economies, risk-free interest rates – i.e. the rates applicable to assets with minimal credit risk – have fallen to historically low levels over the recent period, in both nominal and real terms. These interest rates are particularly important because they serve as the basis...
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Monetary policy in the United States and the euro area during the crisis
Cordemans, N.; Ide, S. - In: Economic Review (2012) I, pp. 39-63
In the wake of the two longer-term refinancing operations with a maturity of three years conducted in December 2011 and February 2012, amounts placed on the Eurosystem’s deposit facility surged to unprecedented high levels of around € 800 billion. The article clarifies how this high recourse...
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