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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-Term Solution of the Euro Crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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A Theory of Social Impact Bonds

Tortorice, Daniel L. - 2020

Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...

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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?

Saka, Orkun - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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Testing Mundell's Intuition of Endogenous OCA Theory

Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phani V.; Janicki, Hubert - 2021

This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...

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Enlarging the EMU to the East : What Effects on Trade?

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Spies, Julia - 2021

The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...

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How Does the Economic Uncertainty Affect Asset Prices Under Normal and Financial Distress Times?

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2022

By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia - 2014

disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third …-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third …

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016

Jauer, Julia - 2018

especially in the Eurozone, the reaction to a very large extent stems from migration of recent EU accession country citizens as …

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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021

Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...

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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020

reverse QE (RQE) periods while the EU EPU makes Asian markets vulnerable during the Eurozone debt crisis. The large …

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