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No one seems to be neutral about the effects of EMU on the German economy. Roughly speaking, there are two camps: those who see the euro as the advent of a newly open, large, and efficient regime which will lead to improvements in European and in particular in German competitiveness; those who...
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This note reviews the legal issues and concerns that are likely to play an important role in the ongoing deliberations of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany concerning the legality of ECB government bond purchases such as those conducted in the context of its earlier Securities Market...
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The resilience of the German banking system is studied on the semiaggregated level from 1968 to 2022. We distinguish between Large Banks, Regional Banks, Landesbanken, Sparkassen and Credit Unions and study their z-scores as a measure of resilience in response to the monetary policy stances of...
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The rules laid down in Article 32 of the Protocol No. 18 on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of … the European Central Bank of the Maastricht Treaty will significantly redistribute European seignorage income and hence … the implicit entitlement to the 352 billion stock of interest bearing assets which the central banks contributed to the …
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and Monetary Union. We study whether statements by different (groups of) central bankers have been contradictory and … have indeed been contradictory. Furthermore, national central banks continue to dominate communication on monetary policy …
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The actions by the European Central Bank (ECB) during the global and European crises have triggered a highly …
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In the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis, the ECB became deeply involved in activities aimed at stabilizing the financial system, over-leveraged banks, and over-indebted governments. This article addresses the costs of these monetary policy measures, which heavily exceed the...
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The present paper studies the consequences of conflicting narratives for the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We focus on conflict between the presidents of the ECB and the Bundesbank, the main protagonists of monetary policy in the euro area, who often disagreed on policy over the past...
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In this paper, we analyse the effects of objective and subjective knowledge about monetary policy, as well as the information search patterns, of German citizens on trust in the ECB. We rely on a unique representative public opinion survey of German households conducted in 2011. We find that...
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