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The likely extension of the euro area has triggered a debate on the organization of the ECB, in particular on the … apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to …
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The likely extension of the euro area has triggered a debate on the organization of the ECB, in particular on the … apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094239
In this paper we shall present the voting procedure with rotation scheme used by the Governing Council of the European …
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According to the relevant literature, monetary policy implications concerning the optimal inflation rate can be derived by examining the relationship between inflation and the Relative Price Variability (RPV). This paper studies this issue for selected Euro Area (EA) countries, using monthly...
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the euro area. Claims have emerged that the ECB should more explicitly address the financing problems of SMEs. In this …
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In the first fifteen years of its life the ECB has delivered price stability through an accommodative monetary policy …
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The global financial crisis that started in 2007 exposed the failure of governments and legislative bodies to regulate the banking industry adequately at a national and global level. Post-crisis reforms and structural changes have ensued: the switch from the G7 to the G20 for example and an...
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This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
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The current monetary policy framework to avert the ongoing financial disintegration in the eurozone and to break the vicious circle that ties up banks and governments in a death grip (liquidity ring-fencing) does not allow effective policies to deal properly with the problems affecting interbank...
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