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Measuring Institutional Competitiveness in Europe
Huemer, Stefan - 2013
While there are many methods to measure the competitiveness of an economy, most of these concepts ignore the fact that competitiveness can change because of market processes like wage negotiation but also because of political decision-making. Governments that compete with others for factors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081457
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Feedback to the ECB's Monetary Analysis : The Bank of Russia's Experience with Some Key Tools
Ponomarenko, Alexey - 2012
banks given their specific institutional, economic and financial environment. We take the case of the Bank of Russia in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100833
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The Political Economy Under Monetary Union : Has the Euro Made a Difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2021
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316460
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Behavioural Characteristics and Financial Distress
McCarthy, Yvonne - 2011
Using a new nationally representative survey of financial capability and experience in the UK and Ireland, I investigate the key factors that cause individuals to experience financial distress. In this context, a key area that I focus on is whether individuals' behavioural traits, such as their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130145
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Measuring institutional competitiveness in Europe
Huemer, Stefan; Scheubel, Beatrice; Walch, Florian - 2013
While there are many methods to measure the competitiveness of an economy, most of these concepts ignore the fact that competitiveness can change because of market processes like wage negotiation but also because of political decision-making. Governments that compete with others for factors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605601
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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?
Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605002
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Inputs in distress: Geoeconomic fragmentation and firms' sourcing
Panon, Ludovic; Lebastard, Laura; Mancini, Michele; … - 2024
We study how disruptions to the supply of foreign critical inputs (FCIs) - that is, inputs primarily sourced from extra-EU countries with highly concentrated supply, advanced technology products, or which are key to the green transition - might affect value added at different levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015199466
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How successful is the G7 in managing exchange rates?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2008
The paper assesses the extent to which the Group of Seven (G7) has been successful in its management of major currencies since the 1970s. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds evidence that the G7 has been overall effective in moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604998
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How Successful is the G7 in Managing Exchange Rates?
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2015
The paper assesses the extent to which the Group of Seven (G7) has been successful in its management of major currencies since the 1970s. Using an event-study approach, the paper finds evidence that the G7 has been overall effective in moving the US dollar, yen and euro in the intended direction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750085
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Are There Oil Currencies? The Real Exchange Rate of Oil Exporting Countries
Habib, Maurizio Michael; Kalamova, Margarita M. - 2021
-exporting countries: Norway, Russia and Saudi Arabia. We create our measure of the real effective exchange rates for Norway and Saudi … Arabia (1980-2006) and for Russia (1995-2006), testing if real oil prices and productivity differentials against 15 OECD … countries influence exchange rates. In the case of Russia it is possible to establish a positive long-run relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316726