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This paper contributes to the understanding of the international financial linkages created by US banks by looking at the geographical composition and structure of the balance sheet of foreign branches. The empirical investigation, which is based on a novel dataset containing balance sheet...
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The critical role of current account imbalances (CAI) is widely shared in the consensus narratives of the European crisis that followed the Great Recession. On the basis of this interpretation, new EU initiatives raised, in particular the so-called “Six Pack” adoption in 2011 and the...
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reallocated from the private to the public sector, reducing investment and deepening the recession even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce …
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reallocated from the private to the public sectors, reducing investment and deepening the recessions even further. To account for …. This implies that domestic debt purchases displace productive investment. The model shows that these purchases reduce … other countries in the Eurozone, and how they may be addressed by policies at the European level …
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In this paper we formalize the framework for monetary and exchange rate policy presented in Bofinger and Wollmershäuser [2001a]. We develop a simple comparative static model for an open economy that allows us to discuss monetary policy under the exchange rate strategies of independently...
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The paper adds to the literature as follows: starting from the benchmark model of Asdrubali et al. (1996), we reproduce the original specification with a data set obtained from the authors as well as possible. In a second step, this specification is brought to euro area data. Again, the results...
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Omitted from traditional OCA criteria, price effects are important because regional monetary union protects from pricing risks and contributes to greater uniformity and efficiency in price setting. Among member countries it reduces price dispersion in tradables in part by irrevocably fixing the...
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In the vast majority of recursive dynamic CGE models, the savings rate is constant and exogenous. Intertemporal CGE models, by contrast, are solved simultaneously for all periods, and agents optimize intertemporally. But the theoretical consistency of intertemporal optimization is achieved only...
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