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Interest Rate Linkages in EMU Countries : A Rolling Threshold Vector Error-Correction Approach

Poghosyan, Tigran; Haan, Jakob de - 2021

This paper revisits financial market integration in the European Economic and Monetary Union, using a threshold vector error-correction model (TVECM) for a fixed rolling window. This approach enables us to analyze the dynamics of transaction costs and detect any co-movements with (policy...

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Collective Memories on the 2010 European Debt Crisis

Arnemann, Laura; Konrad, Kai A.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine whether collective memories on the aid&reform programs chosen to handle the 2010 European debt crisis differ between citizens from borrower and lender countries. We use new international survey data for non-experts and experts in member countries of the euro area. The results show...

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Central Bank Policies and Financial Markets : Lessons from the Euro Crisis

Mody, Ashoka - 2019

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone’s rolling financial crisis. For providing … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …

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The Euro Crisis and Economic Growth : A Novel Counterfactual Approach

Terzi, Alessio - 2019

warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific … Eurozone's specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal …

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Macroeconomic Policy Lessons for Greece from the Debt Crisis

Economides, George - 2020

This paper first searches for the drivers of the Greek depression in the aftermath of the 2007-8 global crisis and in turn looks for engines of sustained growth. We use a micro-founded macroeconomic model calibrated to Greece. Our simulations show that the adopted adjustment program (namely, the...

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Italy in the Eurozone

Keuschnigg, Christian; Kirschner, Linda; Kogler, Michael; … - 2021

benign exit from the Eurozone with stable investor expectations could substantially dampen the short-run impact …

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Sovereign Defaults and Debt Sustainability : The Debt Recovery Channel

Diarra, Ibrahima; Guillard, Michel; Kempf, Hubert - 2022

This paper focuses on the debt recovery channel linking the dynamics of public debt to partial sovereign defaults. We build a simple model which incorporates sovereign default and a debt recovery rule. It depends on a parameter that allows for partial debt recovery. We show that the maximum...

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The Seniority Structure of Sovereign Debt

Schlegl, Matthias - 2019

Sovereign governments owe debt to many foreign creditors and can choose which creditors to favor when making payments. This paper documents the de facto seniority structure of sovereign debt using new data on defaults (missed payments or arrears) and creditor losses in debt restructuring...

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Creating a Euro Area Safe Asset Without Mutualizing Risk (Much)

Leandro, Alvaro - 2019

This paper explains and evaluates three proposals to create "safe assets" for the euro area based on sovereign bonds, in which sovereign risk is limited through diversification and some form of seniority. These assets would be held by banks and other financial institutions, replacing...

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57 Channels (and Nothin on) - Does TV-News on the Eurozone Affect Government Bond Yield Spreads?

Wolfinger, Julia - 2019

news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries which include 37,859 news on the EU, on the Eurozone and on country …-specific economic issues. We find that an increasing share of news about the Eurozone reduces yield spreads, especially when the news …

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