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Increasing the international role of the euro : a long way to go
Dąbrowski, Marek - 2020
The euro is the second most important global currency after the US dollar. However, its international role has not … increased since its inception in 1999. The private sector prefers using the US dollar rather than the euro because the financial … the attractiveness of the euro outside the euro area requires, among others, a proactive role for the European Central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265943
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After 25 years as faithful members of the EU : public support for the euro and trust in the ECB in Austria, Finland and Sweden
Roth, Felix; Jonung, Lars - 2020
Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … physical introduction of the new currency nearly 20 years ago, while the euro crisis significantly reduced support for the euro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269193
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Sustainability and solvency of government finances under the euro : illustrations and policy Options
Oksanen, Heikki - 2020
In this paper, sound public finances under the euro means sustainability in the long term instead of short- and medium …-term fiscal discipline. The challenges to sustainability are identified for the four largest euro area member states, and several … resort for a euro area government under liquidity shortage to prevent it from developing into a general financial crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238506
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Monetary policy under currency board arrangements: An necessary flexibility for transition countries?
Berensmann, Kathrin - 2003
One of the main disadvantages of currency boards is the rule-based character of this system and the resulting inflexibility in case of shocks, a frequently recurring event in transition countries. Accordingly, central banks under currency board arrangements (CBA) are unable to respond to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305746
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Inflation Targeting in Colombia, 2002-2012
Urrutia, Miguel; Hofstetter Gascón, Marcel; Hamann S., … - 2014
After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314133
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The Triffin dilemma again
Campanella, Edoardo - 2010
Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of dollar's double role of national and international currency. This is the Triffin dilemma. The paper shows how it works through three examples: price of commodities, dollarization, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008648332
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The eurozone in the current crisis
Wyplosz, Charles - 2010
This paper contrasts the United States (US) and European situations during the crisis and examines how much of the crisis has been imported by Europe from the US. The paper argues that Europe never had a chance to avoid contagion from the US. It also documents the relatively limited reaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983135
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Monetary policy reform in a World of Central Banks
Schnabl, Gunther - 2011
displacement of the prevalent world monetary system. Enhanced competition between dollar and euro as international currencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009508892
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The conduct of monetary policy in the future : instrument use
Inaba, Kei-Ichiro; O'Farrell, Rory; Rawdanowicz, Łukasz; … - 2015
The set of monetary policy instruments has expanded since the start of the global financial crisis in the many OECD economies. Against this background, this paper analyses whether some of the new instruments should be retained in the long term when broader financial stability objectives are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392833
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Cambodia's persistent dollarization : causes and policy options
Menon, Jayant - 2008
Cambodia's economic and social achievements over the past ten years have been the most impressive in its history. Nevertheless, Cambodia today is still as dollarized, if not more so, than it was ten years ago. What is this so, and what, if anything, should the Government do? This paper attempts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011282131