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The Economic Impact of Merger Control : What is Special about Banking?

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Ongena, Steven - 2021

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks' stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … institutional setup for supervisory bank merger reviews. Thus strengthening competition policy in banking may generate positive …

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Organisational Structure as a Driver of Mergers and Acquisitions in the European Banking Sector

Lebastard, Laura - 2022

This paper studies the bilateral drivers of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) between European banks. Two findings document that banks use M&A as a device to leverage their expertise rather than to diversify. (i) Following the literature on matrimonial matching by using a binary logit model, the...

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What Has Driven Inflation Dynamics in the Euro Area, the United Kingdom and the United States

Melolinna, Marko - 2015

This paper studies factors behind inflation dynamics in the euro area, the UK and the US. It introduces a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions to study the effects of fundamental macroeconomic shocks on inflation in the three economies. The FAVAR model...

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Inflation Risk Premia in the US and the Euro Area

Hördahl, Peter - 2010

We use a joint model of macroeconomic and term structure dynamics to estimate inflation risk premia in the United States and the euro area. To sharpen our estimation, we include in the information set macro data and survey data on inflation and interest rate expectations at various future...

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Bank Risk-Taking, Securitization, Supervision and Low Interest Rates : Evidence from the Euro Area and the U.S. Lending Standards

Maddaloni, Angela - 2010

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...

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Monetary Policy and Capital Regulation in the US and Europe

Cohen-Cole, Ethan - 2010

From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis began in August 2007 inflation expectations were high...

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Housing, Consumption and Monetary Policy : How Different are the US and the Euro Area?

Musso, Alberto - 2012

The paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the role of the housing market in the macroeconomy in the US and in the euro area. First, it establishes some stylised facts concerning key variables in the housing market, such as the real house price, residential investment and mortgage...

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Inflation Persistence in the European Union, the Euro Area, and the United States

Gadzinski, Gregory - 2011

In this paper we report results on inflation persistence using 79 inflation series covering the EU countries, the euro area and the US for five different inflation variables. The picture that emerges is one of moderate inflation persistence across the board. In particular we find euro area...

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Consumer Confidence as a Predictor of Consumption Spending : Evidence for the United States and the Euro Area

Dées, Stéphane - 2011

For most academics and policy makers, the depth of the 2007-09 financial crisis, its longevity and its impacts on the real economy resulted from an erosion of confidence. This paper proposes to assess empirically the link between consumer sentiment and consumption expenditures for the United...

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Fiscal Policy Shocks in the Euro Area and the US : An Empirical Assessment

Burriel, Pablo - 2009

We analyse the impact of fiscal policy shocks in the euro area as a whole, using a newly available quarterly dataset of fiscal variables for the period 1981-2007. To allow for comparability with previous results on euro area countries and the US, we use a standard structural VAR framework, and...

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