exchange rate to one of the politically most important exchange rates, the exchange rate of the US dollar vis-à-vis the euro … (the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12. Applying a novel time-varying coefficient estimation approach, we …

euro. At the end of our estimation period, the previous exchange rate movements had shifted the upper bound of the play …This paper deals with the impact of the $/Euro exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our … implement an algorithm describing play-hysteresis into a regression framework. A unique "pain threshold" of the $/Euro exchange …

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 …

In this paper we present an empirically stable euro area money demand model. Using a sample period until 2009:2 shows … stability of the euro area money demand function. We also compare single equation methods like the ARDL approach, FM-OLS, CCR … applied for this purpose in previous studies. -- ARDL model ; cointegration ; euro area ; financial crisis ; money demand …

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 …