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This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a … bank. We find evidence in favour of significant cross-border contagion. We also find some evidence that since the … introduction of the euro cross-border contagion may have increased. The results seem to be very robust to changes in the …
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The paper provides an overview over the law of the European banking market. It identifies the driving forces of market … integration, the regulatory steps towards its implementation and the directives on the integration of the European banking market …
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Using a DSGE model with nominal wage rigidity, we investigate two scenarios for the Italian economy. The first considers sustained policy commitment to reform. The results indicate the possibility of 'growing out of bad initial conditions', if fiscal consolidation is combined with a program for...
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financial institutions. This paper reviews the stylized facts of the integration of European banking markets and the changing … nature of cross-border banking. Although the openness of financial systems has increased, bilateral financial linkages among …
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analyzes the implications of the euro for cross-border banking activities. A portfolio model is used which captures the role of …
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This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in the euro area during the sovereign debt...
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Using a novel dataset on government interventions into financial institutions between 2008-2013, we examine the impact of capital injection announcements on the downside correlation risk premium (DCRP), the compensation that investors demand to bear the risk of large correlated drops in banks'...
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injection announcements on systemic risk for the banking sector in the U.S. and the euro area between 2008 and 2013. We propose …
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This paper analyses the reforms in the architecture of EMU since the eruption of the euro crisis in 2010. We describe major weaknesses in the original set-up of EMU, such as lack of fiscal discipline, diverging financial cycles and competitiveness positions, and a lack of crisis instruments....
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Recent studies find that short-term fluctuations in EMU have been symmetric. This finding leads to benign views on the functioning of EMU as an optimum currency area (OCA), that are difficult to reconcile with the sovereign debt crisis. We try to solve this puzzle by looking at medium-term...
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