Showing 1 - 10 of 304
Divergent macro-economic developments within a currency area can lead to undesired distortions. That is why in the Eurozone much attention was drawn to the homogeneity of the currency area. However, at the beginning the Eurozone seemed to be too heterogeneous for a common currency. So many hopes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358677
Innerhalb einer Währungsunion ist eine souveräne nationale Geldpolitik nicht möglich. Solange die einzelnen Länder sich in verschiedenen ökonomischen Situationen befi nden, wirkt sich auch die gemeinsame Geldpolitik unterschiedlich aus. Sind die Länder zu heterogen, kann die gemeinsame...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440590
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485537
This paper examines the question whether joining EMU or the breach of the Stability and Growth Pact in 2003 had an impact on the deficit policy of member states. The empirical analysis gives no hint for an alteration of deficit policy after having joined EMU or after having breached the Pact in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488439
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662834
With the announcement to intervene on financial markets to restore the monetary transmission mechanism, the ECB has attenuated the pressure of the markets on the endangered peripheral countries of the Eurozone. Critics argue that by eliminating the markets’ disciplining interest mechanism,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597252
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105278
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631781
Das Eurosystem hat bis Dezember 2018 im Rahmen des Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) Staatsanleihen für fast 2,2 Billionen Euro erworben, um (laut offizieller Begründung) die Inflationsrate auf den Zielwert von knapp 2 % zu bringen. Nicht wenige Ökonomen qualifizieren die Anleihekäufe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121066
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737890