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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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benign exit from the Eurozone with stable investor expectations could substantially dampen the short-run impact …
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We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
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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 … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific …
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We analyse the background of the Greek debt crisis and evaluate the three Greek financial assistance programme. The crisis and the first programme's (2010-11) failure were mainly the result of misguided internal policies. The second programme (2012-14) achieved progress towards recovery but this...
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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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This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...
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German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies … the German government pushed during the Eurozone crisis have been informed by the ordoliberal tradition. In particular …
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How will sovereign debt markets evolve in the 21st century? We survey how the literature has responded to the eurozone …
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Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in … from international banks. Eurozone banking integration in the years 2000-2008 mainly involved cross-border lending between …
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