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We examine whether collective memories on the aid&reform programs chosen to handle the 2010 European debt crisis differ … the programs in different manners; indicating biases for assessments of how the crisis outcomes are perceived in borrower … and lender countries. Nation-serving biases may well explain if the European debt crisis has reduced the sense of …
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European banks have been criticized for holding excessive domestic government debt during the recent Eurozone crisis … covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, I first re-confirm that the crisis led to the reallocation of sovereign …
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We assess public finances solvency for Euro Area countries using quarterly data between 1999Q1 and 2020Q4. Through a country-by-country analysis, the answer to the title question is true. For most countries, (i) the primary budget balance reacts positively to the lagged public debt ratio and...
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This paper first searches for the drivers of the Greek depression in the aftermath of the 2007-8 global crisis and in … Greece had simply remained at its pre-crisis level. On the other hand, we show that, in the absence of the official fiscal …
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The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone’s rolling financial crisis. For providing … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we …
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crisis countries (Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Spain) based on over 200 past macroeconomic adjustment episodes between …Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have … warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone …
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benign exit from the Eurozone with stable investor expectations could substantially dampen the short-run impact …
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euro area, including the most recent developments during the coronavirus crisis. Several financial transmission channels … the euro area. Since the European financial and debt crisis, public financing mechanisms and the unconventional monetary …
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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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survey was fielded in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, in which the prospect of a severe economic shock became realistic …
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