Durch die europäische Schuldenkrise wurde offensichtlich, wie wichtig eine Vertiefung der europäischen Integration ist. Wichtige Reformen zur Weiterentwicklung der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion sind zwar auf den Weg gebracht, aber häufig unvollendet. Dieser Artikel gibt einen Überblick über aktuelle Entscheidungen zur Bankenunion und diskutiert, wie die Entkopplung des Teufelskreislaufs zwischen Staats- ...
The ECB has engaged in several forms of unconventional monetary policy since 2007. This report documents empirically that the implemented measures were effective. In a counterfactual analysis, the report simulates the effects of an unconventional monetary policy shock of -10 basis points to euro area sovereign yields, consistent with the effect of the first announcement of the Expanded Asset Purchase ...
We estimate the dynamic effects of government spending shocks, using time-varying volatility in US data modeled through a Markov switching process. We find that the average government spending multiplier is significantly and persistently above one, driven by a crowding-in of private consumption and non-residential investment. We rationalize the results empirically through a contemporaneously countercyclical ...
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between bank risk and sovereign credit risk in the euro area. Using structural VAR with daily financial markets data for 2003-13, the analysis confirms two-way causality between shocks to sovereign risk and bank risk, with the former being overall more important in explaining bank risk, than vice versa. The paper focuses specifically on the impact of non-standard ...