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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
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Twenty years of euro history confirms the euro's stability and position as the second global currency. It also enjoys … the support of majority of the euro area population and is seen as a good thing for the European Union. The European …
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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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of existing national public debts is involved. Instead, the Euro Treasury is established as a means to pool eurozone …The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is … the euro are assessed and found lacking. A "Euro Treasury" scheme operating on a strict rule and specifically designed not …
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Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
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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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In this paper, we employ a block structured near-vector autoregression in order to compare the reactions to euro … the eurozone. …
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Eurozone. Each variant of fiscal integration must be based on sound foundations of fiscal discipline. Market discipline, i …
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We analyze fiscal rules within a Monetary Union in the presence of (i) asymmetric information about member states' potential output and, therefore, output gap and (ii) bail-out among member states. In our framework, bail-out lowers the scope for signalling (discrimination) by member states...
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We analyze fiscal rules within a Monetary Union in the presence of (i) asymmetric information on member states' potential output and (ii) bail-out among member states. The first-best deficit is contingent on the cycle, that is, on member states' output gap. In the presence of asymmetric...
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