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The Eurosystem's large-scale asset purchases (quantitative easing, QE) induce a strong and persistent increase in excess reserves in the euro area banking sector. These excess reserves are heterogeneously distributed across euro area countries. This paper develops a two-country New Keynesian...
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Part of the present inflation is caused by the breakdown of globalization, in particular supply chains, part is caused … the past and in the presence. This paper attributes inflation decisively to the overwhelming money creation by the …
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particular, on the impact of the current “inflation crisis” on financial stability vulnerabilities. Furthermore, it addresses two …
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In March 2015, the Eurosystem launched its QE-programme. The asset purchases induced a rapid and strong increase in excess reserves, implying a structural liquidity surplus in the euro area banking sector. Against this background, the first part of this paper analyses the Eurosystem's liquidity...
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The growth in TARGET balances after 2009 has given rise to intense academic and public debate. Our paper offers a systematic exposition of the necessary conditions for TARGET balances to emerge and provides a clear link to monetary policy. We show that large TARGET balances can only arise with...
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Large increases in TARGET2 balances in the euro area since 2008 have led to concern and debate about the appropriate interpretation and policy reaction - in particular in TARGET2 creditor countries such as Germany. Against this background, we examine the main drivers of the increases and...
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In its strategy review, the European Central Bank's Governing Council unanimously decided to make climate change one of its priorities for the coming years. In this article, we try to understand how this change was achieved, and to what extent it represents a break from central banking as usual....
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), the problem of instability is simply transferred to inflation rate differentials, what we call the (impossibility of the …) "uncovered inflation rate parity condition" in a monetary union. The analysis of the actual divergences and imbalances in the EMU …, then, suggests that failure to respect the "uncovered inflation rate parity condition" in a monetary union may lead to …
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), the problem of instability is simply transferred to inflation rate differentials, what we call the (impossibility of the …) "uncovered inflation rate parity condition" in a monetary union. The analysis of the actual divergences and imbalances in the EMU …, then, suggests that failure to respect the "uncovered inflation rate parity condition" in a monetary union may lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926988
This paper assesses the contribution of the European Central Bank (ECB) to Germany's ongoing economic crisis, a vicious circle of decline in which the country has become stuck since the early 1990s. It is argued that the ECB continues the Bundesbank tradition of asymmetric policymaking: the bank...
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