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In this paper, the focus lies on the way the German government spends, how it spends and what the connection between finance ministry and central bank is. The institutions involved in the process are identified and discussed. As a member of the Eurozone, Germany's national central bank is not...
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This paper studies the effects of government guarantees on the interconnection between banking and sovereign debt crises in a framework where both the banks and the government are fragile and the credibility and feasibility of the guarantees are determined endogenously. The analysis delivers...
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This paper examines equilibrium determination under different monetary policy regimes when the government might default on its debt. We apply a cash-in-advance model where the government does not have access to non-distortionary taxation and does not account for initial outstanding debt when it...
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legislation, EMU crisis support and ECB monetary policy have significantly contributed to relieving sovereign liquidity and …
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The present study puts forward a plan for solving the sovereign debt crisis in the euro area (EA) in line with the interests of the working classes and the social majority. Our main strategy is for the European Central Bank (ECB) to acquire a significant part of the outstanding sovereign debt...
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We describe the evolution of balance sheets of monetary financial institutions (MFI) in Portugal before, during, and after the sovereign debt crisis of the late 2000's. We account for several dimensions of heterogeneity including size, type, and nationality. We find that the Portuguese MFI...
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Treasury securities normally possess unparalleled safety and liquidity and, consequently, carry a money premium. We use … the money premium, safety, and liquidity. Our results shed light on Treasury market dynamics specifically, and debt more …. Meanwhile, changes in liquidity only affected the money premium during the impasses. Next, we show that Treasury safety and …
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Public and private sector balance sheets are an important component to any analysis of debt sustainability. A vulnerable and indebted private sector can become a sudden liability for the government; alternatively, resilient household and bank balance sheets may reveal potential sources of...
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