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Overresponse to short-run events and neglect of longer-term consequences of its actions is one of the main errors that the Federal Reserve makes repeatedly. The current recession offers many examples of actions that some characterize as bold and innovative. I regard many of these actions as...
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This paper studies the spillover effects of the ECB's monetary policies on non-euro area countries over the period 2004 … proxied by short-term interest rates and the Wu and Xia's (2016) shadow rates in the euro area, the US and the UK …. Identification is performed via a Cholesky decomposition in the euro area only. An increase in the euro area shadow interest rate …
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A puzzle from the Great Recession is an apparent mismatch between a fall in the persistence of European inflation rates, and the increased variability of expert forecasts of inflation. We explain this puzzle and show how country specific beliefs about inflation are still quite close to the...
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“Well, if I had a nickel, I know what I would do. I'd spend it all on candy and give it all to you...Cause that's how much I love you baby.” That wasn't a very generous proposition even in 1946, when country singer Eddy Arnold wrote those words. But at least a nickel would buy a good-sized...
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This paper takes stock of the global economic recovery a decade after the 2008 financial crisis. Output losses after the crisis appear to be persistent, irrespective of whether a country suffered a banking crisis in 2007-08. Sluggish investment was a key channel through which these losses...
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with the COVID-19 emergency by shifting Agamben's paradigm of the 'homo sacer' to the 'sacertas' of the Euro. In this frame …, after describing the Euro as a currency (nomisma) lacking in an appropriate nomos to give member states (economic) credit …
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with a particular focus on the impact of the euro area crisis. Research Design & Methods: The study is conducted for the 28 …, the condition of the banking sector seems to have gained in importance after the outbreak of the euro area crisis and … remained high in the post-crisis years. At the same time, the status of being a euro area member, which negatively affected …
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the rate of monetary and financial systems integration deployed within the Euro area is not sustainable in the long run …. Instead of acting as a buffer against external shocks and internal imbalances within the Euro area, the common currency has … a disorderly unwinding of the Euro area over time and the accumulation of significant long-term economic costs of …
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​The paper concentrates on illustrating and assessing central banks' liquidity operations during the crisis that started in August 2007. In addition to the ECB, the central banks of Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Canada and the United States are analyzed. During the...
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