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This paper contributes to the discussion on the European current account imbalances by analysing the intra-European trends since 1990 based on the theory of optimum currency areas. The authors show that German unification was the origin of not only the 1992-93 EMS crisis but also rising...
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discusses options for liquidity absorption by the Bundesbank to forestall asset price bubbles in Germany. …
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In the pre-crisis period, substantial current account imbalances built up in the euro area. Despite recent progress in economic rebalancing, especially in the countries mostly affected by the euro debt crisis, a controversial debate is still raging about past causes, current interpretations and...
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The debt crisis of the eurozone revealed a structural problem of the single market rooted in the external imbalance … problem of indebted member states. The assumption of this paper is that the current account imbalances within the eurozone are … based on an intra-eurozone competitiveness disparity originated in the single currency and the heterogeneity of member state …
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have succeeded in rapidly reducing their current account deficits despite fixed exchange rates. Which factors have played a major role in this? What similarities, and what differences, do the Baltic states show compared to Greece and Portugal? What insights can be...
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