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Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank-were ultimately responsible for the outburst of global financial crisis of … tend not to take into account the policies of the European Central Bank. …
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We show that a .scal expansion by the core economies of the euro area would have a large and positive impact on periphery GDP assuming that policy rates remain low for a prolonged period. Under our preferred model speci.cation, an expansion of core government spending equal to one percent of...
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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...
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We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary System (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened …
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This paper studies monetary regime choice between monetary union and flexible exchange rate regime in a large open economy framework. The classical approach emphasizes that monetary unions are inherently costly because a single interest rate cannot respond effectively to different shocks of...
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for price stability and maintaining central bank independence and credibility. The report consists of three parts. The … general conceptual aspects – i.e. those aspects that pertain to an environment characterised by a single central bank and a … single fiscal authority and those aspects that pertain to an environment characterised by a single central bank and many …
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Eurozone and even speculation that the euro might break up. Against this background this paper sets out to re-examine the Hard …
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In this paper we present supporting evidence of the existence of heterogeneity in inflation dynamics across euro area countries. Based on the estimation of New Phillips Curves for five major countries of the euro area, we find that there is significant inertial (backward looking) behavior in...
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the European Central Bank (ECB) have evolved in these three countries since their introduction at the turn of the century …
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