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Realwirtschaftliche Aspekte der gegenwärtigen Krise im Eurosystem: Ursachen, Wirkungen und Reformansätze
Fahrholz, Christian; Freytag, Andreas - 2011
In diesem Beitrag werfen wir einen Blick auf die 'TARGET2-Debatte', die insbesondere durch die Beiträge von Hans-Werner Sinn (exemplarisch: 2011a-d), John Whittaker (2011), und Ende letzten Jahres bereits durch Peter Garber (2010) initiiert worden ist. Die fachliche Auseinandersetzung hat auf...
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Euro area: Single currency - national money creation
Kooths, Stefan; van Roye, Björn - 2012
The Eurosystem has been pursuing a crisis management policy for more than four years now. This policy aims primarily at maintaining financial stability in the euro area by providing vast liquidity support to commercial banks that are operating in nationally segmented banking systems. As a side...
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Das Zahlungsverkehrssystem TARGET2 aus zahlungsbilanztheoretischer Sicht
Fahrholz, Christian - 2012
This article deals with the macro-economics of the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer System (TARGET2). It is shown that TARGET2 contrib-utes to a misallocation of real resources. The discussion high-lights that there are no tendencies for rebalancing TARGET2...
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Warum die Volkswirtschaften der Eurozone den USA und Großbritannien seit der Finanzkrise hinterherhinken: Zur Rolle von Unterschieden in der Geld- und Fiskalpolitik
Heimberger, Philipp - 2016
Finanzkrise im Vergleich von Eurozone, USA und Großbritannien. Die Eurozone erholte sich seit 2010 deutlich schleppender als die … Wirtschaftsräume wird in zwei Dimensionen analysiert; zum einen anhand eines Überblicks zur Geldpolitik der EZB nach dem Ausbruch der … Ergebnis ist, dass der restriktivere Mix aus Geld- und Fiskalpolitik in der Eurozone die im Vergleich zu den USA und …
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Fiscal convergence before entering the EMU
Onorante, Luca - 2006
The monetary integration of the acceding countries will proceed in several distinct steps, starting with membership in the European Union (EU), followed by participation in the so-called Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) II and ultimately entry into the euro area. This paper addresses the question...
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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...
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Where next for monetary policy? Lessons from the financial crisis and the pandemic
Minford, Patrick - 2023
Monetary developments of recent decades began with much promise with inflation targeting by independent central banks; the financial crisis of 2007 ushered in a period of great monetary instability. There are lessons for a return to more stability. Central banks need to stabilize money supply...
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Fiscal divergence, current account divergence and TARGET2 imbalances in the EMU
Abad, José; Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, … - In: Intereconomics 48 (2013) 1, pp. 51-58
Diverging fiscal policy paths, housing booms and diverging unit labour costs were driving forces of rising intra-European current account imbalances, which were underpinned by low interest rates. Since the outbreak of the crisis, the adjustment of intra-EMU current account imbalances has been...
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The Ease of Trade Imbalances Within the Euro Area After the 2008 Recession
Scheiblecker, Marcus - 2013
Right from the start of the European currency union, trade imbalances could be observed in the current accounts and trade balances of the euro countries. The business cycle upswing reaching into 2008 and the strong inflow of cheap money led to a strong economic expansion especially in the...
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On the empirical evidence of the intertemporal current account model for the euro area countries
Ca' Zorzi, Michele; Rubaszek, Michał - 2008
In this paper we present a novel approach to the empirical validation of the intertemporal approach to the current account. We develop a calibrated model highlighting the role of consumption smoothing and capital accumulation in the economic convergence process. After solving the model, we...
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