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Rules versus human beings, and the mandate of the ECB
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015
The actions by the European Central Bank (ECB) during the global and European crises have triggered a highly controversial debate, in particular in Germany, about the costs and benefits of the chosen policy path. The paper reviews, compares and evaluates the different arguments made in favour...
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And Indeed It Was a (Failed) Nullification Crisis : The OMT Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court and the Winners and Losers of the Final Showdown in the OMT Case
Pace, Lorenzo Federico - 2016
The aim of the present article is twofold. Firstly, to put the German Federal Constitutional Court (i.e., the BverfG) judgment into the context of a drawn-out conflict between the German Republic and the European Union regarding the setting up of a crisis management tool in the area of monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984451
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Monetary policy and the resilience of the German banking system : from Deutsche Bundesbank to ECB
Sepp, Tim Florian; Israel, Karl-Friedrich; Treitz, Benjamin - 2024
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014471868
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Monetary policy in the liquidity trap and after : a reassessment of quantitative easing and critique of the Federal Reserve's proposed exit strategy
Palley, Thomas I. - 2013
This paper provides a novel analysis of quantitative easing (QE) that focuses on its implicit fiscal dimension. The first segment examines the theory of the liquidity trap and introduces a distinction between a "weak" and "strong" liquidity trap. The second segment analyzes the impact of QE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756555
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Emu and Transatlantic Exchange Rate Stability
Mojon, Benoit; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2000
The impact of EMU on the transatlantic exchange rate stability raises the more general question of whether the exchange rate is a useful adjustment instrument or source of instability. We estimate a simple, three-country model for the United States, Germany and France, over the 1972-1995 period....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181129
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Investigating the Intellectual Origins of Euroland's Macroeconomic Policy Regime : Central Banking Institutions in West Germany after the War
Bibow, Jörg - 2004
This paper investigates the (re-)establishment of central banking in West Germany after 1945 and the history of the Bundesbank Act of 1957. The main focus is on the early emphasis on the 'independence' of the central bank, which, together with a 'stability-orientation' in monetary policy, proved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071707
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The euro debt crisis and Germany's euro trilemma
Bibow, Jörg - 2012
This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that … threaten the euro's survival. The crisis in Euroland poses a global "too big to fail" threat, and presents a moral hazard of … perhaps unprecedented scale to the global community. -- Euro ; Monetary Union ; Banking Crisis ; Balance-of-Payments Crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533362
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Germany and the euroland crisis : the making of a vulnerable haven
Bibow, Jörg - 2013
depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But the crisis that started in Euroland's so-called periphery has … meanwhile reached the core. With pro-euro sentiments dwindling fast across the European Union (EU), the future of the euro … turn out to be a double-edged sword. In case of a euro breakup, swift appreciation of the new deutschmark would abruptly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757118
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The Euro Debt Crisis and Germany’s Euro Trilemma
Bibow, Jörg - 2012
This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that … the euro's survival. The crisis in Euroland poses a global “too big to fail” threat, and presents a moral hazard of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106538
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Leader of the Pack? German Monetary Dominance in Europe Prior to EMU
Reade, James - 2011
In this paper, the monetary policy independence of European nations in the years before European Monetary Union (EMU) is investigated using cointegration techniques. Daily data is used to assess pairwise relationships between individual EMU nations and ‘lead' nation Germany, to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118510