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A common means of payment for the European Union has almost been achieved, but has not yet been followed by a 'single payment area'. Cross-border wholesale payments can now be processed as cheaply and as quickly as domestic ones, yet retail transactions are still hampered by inefficient...
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The single currency was expected to make balance of payments irrelevant between the euro-area member states. This benign view has been challenged by recent developments, especially as imbalances between euro-area central banks have widened within the TARGET2 settlement system. Current-account...
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While net settlement systems make more efficient use of liquidity than gross settlement systems, they are known to generate systemic risk. What does that tendency imply for the stability of the payments [or financial] system when the two settlement systems coexist? Do liquidity shortages induce...
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Die Staatsschuldenkrise einiger Länder in der EWU ist letztlich doch eine Währungskrise. Nur im gemeinsamen Währungsraum war es überhaupt möglich, die Schuldaufnahme stark auszuweiten. Andererseits treten bei Zweifeln an der finanziellen Solidität von Schuldnerstaaten kumulative...
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Diverging fiscal policy paths, housing booms and diverging unit labour costs were driving forces of rising intra-European current account imbalances, which were underpinned by low interest rates. Since the outbreak of the crisis, the adjustment of intra-EMU current account imbalances has been...
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We investigate the formation and structure of 248 financial exchangesthroughout the world. First, we empirically analyze the determinantsof exchange formation as well as the impact of exchange formation onthe domestic country's economy. Second, conditional on formation, weuse a probit model to...
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Die Diskussion über die im Euroraum ungleiche Verteilung der Target2-Salden dauert nun schon fast ein Jahr an. Der Autor gibt hier einen Überblick über die einzelnen Argumentationslinien und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Probleme im Euroraum nicht durch Target2-Salden, sondern durch die...
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Nach einer Verordnung der EU-Kommission vom Dezember letzten Jahres müssen im Euro-Raum die Gebühren ab dem 1. Juli 2002 für grenzüberschreitende Abhebungen am Geldautomat und für Bankkartenzahlungen sowie ab dem 1. Juli 2003 bei Überweisungen denen im Inland entsprechen. Hiermit will die...
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