Showing posts with label Euro zone crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro zone crisis. Show all posts
Thursday, August 22, 2013

22/8/2013: Sovereign Default Risk & Banks in the Euro Area Setting: Harald Uhlig

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Harald Uhlig's latest paper "Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union" (CEPR DP9606, August 2013, http://www.cep...
Monday, July 8, 2013

8/7/2013: The More Things Change... in Greece

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So Greece - off-the-charts in terms of not meeting its 'Programme' requirements has been fudged: Now, recall: Privatizations...
Friday, July 27, 2012

27/7/2012: A thought... for a Happy Friday

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Just a thought: How soon will the Finns be sending a note to Merkel along the usual 'concerned neighbors' lines: "Angie, nei...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

21/05/2012: Sunday Times 20/5/2012: Euro area crisis - no growth in sight

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Here's my Sunday Times article from May 20, 2012. Unedited version, as usual. Welcome to the terminal stage of the Eur...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

4/5/2012: Fitch Bells: Ringing de Panic?

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Yesterday, Fitch Ratings issued an interesting report, titled "The Future of the Eurozone: Alternative Scenarios". The report so...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011

13/12/2011: European Summit and Markets Efficiency

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One thing that clearly must be disheartening for the perfect markets efficiency theory buffs (supposedly there are loads of them around, ju...
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Monday, December 12, 2011

12/12/2011: What if - the value of the punt nua?

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For those of you have been reading recent (weeks old) reports that Irish punt, were it to be reintroduced, can witness appreciation relativ...
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Thursday, November 24, 2011

24/11/2011: Beggar thy citizens

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Things are desperate on a new level across Euro area, folks. So desperate, the Euro leadership delusions have shifted up a notched from alr...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

23/11/2011: Is there a run on the euro?

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So let's ask that uncomfortable question: is there a run on the euro going on that is being carried out by ... the European banks? Or i...

22/11/2011: Contagion Complete - IMF goes leverage

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So, the IMF has made a ‘bold’ move, announcing two measures custom-tailored to shore up the insolvent Euro zone until something else, mir...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

10/1/2011: Some simple Italian Auction maths

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Italy's latest auction of 12mo t-bills came in at: Allocation: €5bln  Average yield 6.087% vs 3.57%  in last month's auction b...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

20/09/2011: EU banks losing corporate deposits & 'stress tests' scam

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In a testament that the world continues to lose confidence in Euro area banking system, Europe's largest engineering firm, Siemens repor...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

13/09/2011: Global contagion from Greece

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In the torrent of newsflow from the euro area, we are forgetting about the wider geography of implications of the Greek default. Here are so...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

07/07/2011: What's in the interest rates hikes

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Working away on the data for PIIGS, I was interested in a question, what if the ECB were to go to the equilibrium repo rate consistent with ...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Economics 07/06/2010: Moving to the next stage in Euro crisis

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Last Friday, speaking at the CPA annual conference (will be posting the highlights of the speech here later) I referred to a new 'beast&...
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