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Given the shortcomings of the current responses to the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone, the author proposes utilising national gold reserves as collateral for government debt. Gold backing would be quite attractive to bond investors and would significantly ease the burden of high sovereign...
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Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher borrowing rates than their peers of the core (e.g. Germany, France) and this divergence is widening. It is argued that severe market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area...
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Die Regierungen der Eurozone haben sich am 27. Oktober 2011 auf ein Paket zur Eindämmung der EU-Schuldenkrise geeinigt. Der europäische Rettungsschirm soll durch Hebelwirkung ein größeres Ausleihevolumen erhalten, die Banken ihre Eigenkapitalquote erhöhen und einen Forderungsverzicht...
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At the height of the European sovereign debt crisis, the European Central Bank decided to purchase distressed European government bonds. Even worse, and more importantly, the ECB is providing direct support of several hundred billions of euros to troubled banks via its normal monetary policy...
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Das Kommunikationsverhalten der EZB wird verschiedentlich kritisiert. Zwei Instrumente, mehr Transparenz und Forward Guidance, stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt. Die Veröffentlichung von Protokollen der EZB-Ratssitzungen wird immer wieder angemahnt, und die EZB gibt mittlerweile eine Vorausschau auf...
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This paper comments on the pros and cons of exit strategies. The focus is on the impact on the Euro area economy of the exit from unconventional monetary policies (UMP) by the Fed, which, appears to be the first central bank to lay out an exiting path. In this context, it discusses the issue of...
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