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Der Lehman-Pleite im Herbst 2008 gingen bereits 2007 Turbulenzen am Geldmarkt voraus. Die EZB hat darauf und auf die immer wiederkehrende Panik an den Finanzmärkten besonnen reagiert. Allerdings wird es schwieriger, die Entwicklungen einzuschätzen, denn das Verhalten der Finanzmärkte lässt...
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A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...
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Drawing on the modern literature on the monetary transmission mechanisms with capital market imperfections, this paper presents a model of the "credit-cost channel" of monetary policy. The thrust of the model is that firms' reliance on bank loans ("credit channel") may make aggregate supply...
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Over the past 15 years there has been remarkable progress in the specification and estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Central banks in developed and emerging market economies have become increasingly interested in their usefulness for policy analysis and...
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In the last months, the world's economies were confronted with the largest economic recession since the Great Depression. The occurrence of a worldwide financial market meltdown as a consequence originally stemming from of the crisis in the US subprime housing sector was only prevented by...
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In this paper the author attempts an analysis of the current financial/economic crisis that is wider ranging and more fundamental than he has been able to find. He discusses alternatives to the financial bailouts and shows how the crisis could have been dealt with more efficiently and at little...
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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...
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Seit dem ersten Maiwochenende stehen die Teilnehmerländer für den Beginn der Währungsunion fest: Beteiligt sind die elf Länder, die die Europäische Kommission empfohlen hatte. Werden ihre Wechselkurse in der Interimsphase bis zum Start am 1.1.1999 stabil bleiben? Welches gemeinsame...
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Die Europäische Zentralbank ist bei der Durchführung der gemeinsamen Geldpolitik zwar unabhängig, doch bedürfen einige … Ausgestaltung der europäischen Geldpolitik zuständigen Gremien ihre Entscheidungen? Welcher Einfluß ergibt sich hieraus auf die … Ausgestaltung der Geldpolitik, der Wechselkurspolitik und der Kapitalverkehrspolitik? …
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