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toward a more market based approach. Its impact in Eastern Europe will be even stronger. To ensure the success of EMU an …
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This paper has been prepared as a part of a broader Ezoneplus project that evaluates European Monetary Union (EMU) and …
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This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
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& Monetary Union (EMU). The model includes both nominal and real frictions that have proven to be important in matching business … the EMU and investigates in how far this has altered macroeconomic transmission. We find that Austria's economy appears to … estimations on pre-EMU and EMU subsamples we find that the contribution of (rest of the) Euro Area shocks to Austria's business …
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for 10 EMU countries and for the ECB. The gains from cooperation are calculated by comparing two equilibria, a Nash and a … as a whole with the targets output gap and inflation. In the case of a "full" cooperation, where the 10 EMU countries … coordinate their fiscal policy with the monetary policy of the ECB the welfare gains are very large for the whole Euro zone …
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for 10 EMU countries and for the ECB. The gains from cooperation are calculated by comparing two equilibria, a Nash and a … as a whole with the targets output gap and inflation. In the case of a "full" cooperation, where the 10 EMU countries … coordinate their fiscal policy with the monetary policy of the ECB the welfare gains are very large for the whole Euro zone …
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followed neutral policies based on expenditure rules since the start of EMU. It also calculates the implications for debt …
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In this paper the euro crisis is viewed as the most recent episode of the crisis of financedominated capitalism. Therefore, two major features of finance-dominated capitalism, the increasing inequality of income distribution and the rising imbalances of current accounts, are analysed for a set...
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Empirically, the macroeconomic institutions and the macroeconomic policy approach in the Eurozone have failed badly, both in terms of preventing the global financial and economic cri-sis from becoming a euro crisis and in generating a rapid recovery from the crisis, in particular. In this paper...
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This paper investigates the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policies. It identifies an antigrowth bias in the … bank's monetary policy approach: the ECB is quick to hike, but slow to ease. Similarly, while other players and … attached to the euro area’s official competitive wage-repression strategy, which is in conflict with the ECB's price stability …
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