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Future of the Economic and Monetary Union
Gortsos, Christos V. - 2022
The present paper contains a brief presentation and analysis, in a historical perspective through the lens of the recent major crises, of the legal framework governing the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), as well as current developments and challenges ahead. It is structured in three...
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period … limited as the link between bank lending rates and government bond rates has substantially weakened since the end of 2008. …
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period … limited as the link between bank lending rates and government bond rates has substantially weakened since the end of 2008. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578
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Causes of the outbreak of the Eurozone crisis : the role of the USA and the European Central Bank monetary policy
Białek, Natalia - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 11 (2015) 2, pp. 47-63
This paper argues that the loose monetary policy of two of the world’s most important financial institutions-the US Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank-were ultimately responsible for the outburst of global financial crisis of 2008 - 09. Unusually low interest rates in 2001 -...
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
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TARGET2 imbalances and the ECB as lender of last resort
Purificato, Francesco; Astarita, Caterina - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 3 (2015) 4, pp. 482-509
This paper analyses the issue of the dynamics of the TARGET2 system balances during the sovereign debt crisis, when some countries registered a decisive inflow of the central bank liquidity and others showed an outflow. The dynamics in the TARGET2 are here explained as being due to a fall in the...
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Fiscal Consequences of Central Bank Losses
Cecchetti, Stephen G.; Hilscher, Jens - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In response to the Global Financial Crisis, central banks engaged in large-scale asset purchases funded by the issuance of reserves. These "unconventional" policies continued during the pandemic, so that by 2022 central banks' balance sheets had grown up to ten-fold. As a result of rapidly...
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Floor systems and the Friedman rule : the fiscal arithmetic of open market operations
Keister, Todd; Martin, Antoine; McAndrews, James Joseph - 2015
for the public sector and may even require the government to subsidize the central bank. We show that this is not the case …
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The Economic Case for Monetary Union in the European Union
Buiter, Willem H. - 1997
Differential requirements for seigniorage provide a weak case for retaining monetary independence. As regards adjustment to asymmetric shocks, nominal exchange rate flexibility is at best a limited blessing and at worst a limited curse. Absence of significant fiscal redistribution mechanisms...
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