This paper argues that using gold as collateral for highly distressed bonds would bring great benefits to the euro area … in the context of the euro crisis. This move is then compared to the ECB’s now terminated Securities Market Programme …Der Autor schlägt vor, dass die Euro-Krisenländer Anleihen mit Goldreserven unterlegen sollen. Damit würden …

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …

national variables. We estimate our macro model using quarterly data from Q1 1984 to Q4 2007 for the G7 countries plus the euro …

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area countries from access to key inputs, in particular access to finance. This …Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) in südlichen Euro-Volkswirtschaften wie Italien und Spanien zahlen seit längerem …

technically out of reach within the euro area. -- Exit strategies ; international policy coordination and transmission ; open …

whether uncertainty over future interest rates in the Euro area hampers monetary policy transmission. In this non-linear model … data on domestic investment and interest rates on corporate loans for 5 countries of the Euro area in the period ranging …