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The fragility of two monetary regimes : the European Monetary System and the Eurozone

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2013

We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary System (EMS) and the Eurozone …. We test the hypothesis that in the EMS the fragility arose from the absence of a credible lender of last resort in the … markets that caused the fragility. We conclude that in the EMS the national central banks were weak and fragile, and the …

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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...

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MMT and policy assignment in an open economy context : simplicity is useful, oversimpliflflication not so much

Razmi, Arslan - 2022

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has recently received significant at- tention in academic and policy circles. Critics question the sustainability of MMT-prescribed approaches to fiscal and monetary policy, especially over extended periods of time, in the presence of international financial markets,...

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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...

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Exchange rate arrangements in the run-up to the EMU : some experience in currency board countries

Kielyte, Julda - 2002

Since the beginning of the transition process from centrally planed to market economies, East European countries have experienced relatively high inflation and a market depreciation of their currency. Their monetary systems have gone through dramatic changes in the recent ten years, making the...

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Imbalances? : what imbalances? ; a dissenting view

Wray, L. Randall - 2012

It is commonplace to link neoclassical economics to 18th- or 19th-century physics and its notion of equilibrium, of a pendulum once disturbed eventually coming to rest. Likewise, an economy subjected to an exogenous shock seeks equilibrium through the stabilizing market forces unleashed by the...

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Capital controls and exchange rate regimes : an empirical investigation

Berger, Helge; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2001

It is often argued that deregulation of international transactions and its effects on the globalization of financial markets is behind the decline in the attractiveness of fixed exchange rate regimes. We argue that, instead, much of the recently observed decrease in the level of capital controls...

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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...

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The European Central Bank and why things are the way they are : a historic monetary policy pivot point and moment of (relative) clarity

Dubois, Robert - 2012

Not since the Great Depression have monetary policy matters and institutions weighed so heavily in commercial, financial, and political arenas. Apart from the eurozone crisis and global monetary policy issues, for nearly two years all else has counted for little more than noise on a relative...

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The Euro's savior? : assessing the ECB's crisis management performance and potential for crisis resolution

Bibow, Jörg - 2015

This study assesses the European Central Bank’s (ECB) crisis management performance and potential for crisis resolution. The study investigates the institutional and functional constraints that delineate the ECB’s scope for policy action under crisis conditions, and how the bank has actually...

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