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As shown in Sinn and Wollmershäuser (2012a), during the European balance-of-payments crisis, inter-governmental credit and Target credit granted by core-country central banks have replaced private international capital flows in financing the crisis countries' current account deficits, and even...
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We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively asses the contribution of the TARGET2 system to the … in euro area member countries. Our results suggest that TARGET2 has significantly affected the transmission of capital ow …
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peripheral Europe. These same data suggest that banks headquartered outside the euro area, particularly UK banks, boosted TARGET2 …
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Large increases in TARGET2 balances in the euro area since 2008 have led to concern and debate about the appropriate … COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, this paper analyzes the potential risks for euro area member states in the case of (i) the … potentials if TARGET2 debtor countries pretend to plan to leave the euro area. Based on this, we discuss adaption options for the …
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Spain), and the Target claims of the German Bundesbank increased significantly. If the Eurozone collapses, the German …
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This article looks at the evolution of the Target balance of the Greek central bank. It is shown that in the first 18 months “after Lehman”, lending policy has been relatively lax, contributing to the increase of Target deficits. However, from spring 2010 onwards, there has been a...
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We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively assess how the uneven recourse of national banking … systems in the euro area to the ECB's unconventional refinancing operations that led to the accumulation of large TARGET2 … evolution of aggregate economic activity in euro area member countries in the period 2008-2014. Our results suggest that the …
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We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively asses the contribution of the TARGET2 system to the … in euro area member countries. Our results suggest that TARGET2 has significantly affected the transmission of capital ow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922834
We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively assess how the uneven recourse of national banking … systems in the euro area to the ECB's unconventional refinancing operations that led to the accumulation of large TARGET2 … evolution of aggregate economic activity in euro area member countries in the period 2008-2014. Our results suggest that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034705
The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see De Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We critically evaluate this hypothesis, by pointing towards an...
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