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Evaluation of the financial costs of a Eurozone breakup depends critically on the interpretation of TARGET balances. While it has been argued that TARGET claims in the Eurozone can be written off without incurring any losses on the claimants as the value of fiat money is independent of the...
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While the formal decision of the ECB Council to impose interest on Target claims and liabilities is meaningless, this paper shows that the pooling of primary interest income among national central banks in the Eurozone implies that Target and cash balances do, in fact, bear an effective rate of...
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be a central essential feature of enabling the euro-system to survive a series of major shocks. In this beautifully and … entailed. An essential read for anyone interested in the workings of the euro-system." - Charles Goodhart, Emeritus Professor …-Crisis substantial reforms in the institutional organization of the Euro-Area and the EU will become necessary. It will help policy …
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have been expressed regarding them. It uses the Target statistics to analyze the course of the euro crisis and the ECB …
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While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...
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As shown in Sinn and Wollmershäuser (2012a), during the European balance-of-payments crisis, inter-governmental credit and Target credit granted by core-country central banks have replaced private international capital flows in financing the crisis countries' current account deficits, and even...
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