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In the public and academic discussion on the payment system TARGET2, the high claims and liabilities of some euro area countries have mostly been associated with the financial crisis. The implicit assumption that TARGET2 balances would be close to zero without the financial crisis is both...
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In contrast to conventional analyses of monetary union between two particular countries or sets of countries, this paper treats the possible expansion of a given currency area as a continuous variable ranging from zero to one; zero if there is no expansion and one if all sources of imports and...
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Politik und Geldpolitik in Europa haben sich von den Grundsätzen verabschiedet, die in der Vergangenheit die Garanten des Erfolgs für den Kontinent waren. Die Finanzkrise und ihre nicht enden wollenden Nachbeben verleiten eine verunsicherte und überforderte Elite an den Schaltstellen der...
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TARGET balances have risen during the period of the Eurosystem's asset purchase programme (APP). The APP gives rise to substantial cross-border flows of reserves at the time of asset purchases and beyond, reflecting the interaction of decentralised monetary policy implementation and the...
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The growth in TARGET balances after 2009 has given rise to intense academic and public debate. Our paper offers a systematic exposition of the necessary conditions for TARGET balances to emerge and provides a clear link to monetary policy. We show that large TARGET balances can only arise with...
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surplus liquidity absorption within an asymmetric EMU. It is argued that starting from the turn of the millennium diverging … for the German banking sector. The paper shows how since the outbreak of the crisis the adjustment of intra-EMU current …
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surplus liquidity absorption within an asymmetric EMU. It is argued that starting from the turn of the millennium diverging … for the German banking sector. The paper shows how since the outbreak of the crisis the adjustment of intra-EMU current …
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This paper analyses the impact of the monetary regime change from the Bundesbank to the ECB in 1999 on inflation … significantly. However, the analysis also reveals that the years immediately before the start of EMU were characterised by a …. Once in charge of monetary policy the ECB was quickly successful to restore certainty about its true Bundesbank-like type. …
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