LEADER 00000nam 2200433 a 4500 001 AH25494077 003 StDuBDS 005 20131121010622.0 007 cr|||||||||||| 008 130523s2013 enka fs 001 0 eng|d 020 9781118440032|q(e-book) 020 9781118440056|q(hbk.) 040 StDuBDS|cStDuBDS|dStDuBDSZ|dUkPrAHLS 050 4 HB3782 082 04 330.94|223 100 1 Powell, David,|d1980- 245 14 The trader's guide to the Euro area :|beconomic indicators, the ECB and the Euro crisis /|cDavid J. Powell. 260 Chichester, West Sussex :|bWiley,|c[2013] 300 x, 202 pages. :|billustrations (black and white) 490 1 Bloomberg financial series 505 0 Acknowledgements ix CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 CHAPTER 2 Gross Domestic Product 5 The Expenditure Approach 5 The Output Method 10 The Income Method 11 GNP vs. GDP 11 Release Schedule 12 Trend Growth 15 The Business Cycle 16 Monetary Conditions Index 19 Effects of Monetary Policy on GDP 19 Effects of the Exchange Rate on GDP 21 Exchange- Rate Defl ators 23 CHAPTER 3 Coincident Indicators 27 PMI Surveys 27 Industrial Production 31 CHAPTER 4 Leading Indicators 35 Financial Conditions Index 35 The U.S. Business Cycle 38 ZEW Survey 39 Ifo Survey 41 M1 Money Supply Growth 52 CHAPTER 5 Inflation Measures 57 Consumer Price Index 57 Producer Price Index 63 Labor Costs 65 Money Supply 68 Inflation Expectations 76 CHAPTER 6 The European Central Bank 83 Traffic Light System 86 Mandate 88 Two-Pillar Strategy 90 Monetary Policy Implementation 91 Intervention in the Currency Markets 93 Taylor Rule 95 CHAPTER 7 Other Institutions 101 Council of the European Union 101 European Parliament 102 European Commission 102 Ecofin 103 Eurogroup 103 European Council 104 CHAPTER 8 Euro Crisis 105 Origins 105 Optimal Currency Area Th eory 109 Fiscal Consolidation 111 Quantitative and Qualitative Easing 112 Government Bond Purchases 115 Measures of National Solvency 117 Target2 Balances 121 Resolution 123 Departure from the Euro Area 127 Tools for Analyzing Debt Sustainability 127 CHAPTER 9 Germany 133 Labor Market 133 Political Institutions 137 Political Parties 139 CHAPTER 10 France 143 CHAPTER 11 United Kingdom 145 The Bank of England 145 Quantitative Easing 153 GDP 155 Inflation Measures 157 House Prices 158 Political Institutions 164 CHAPTER 12 Switzerland 167 The Swiss National Bank 167 KOF Leading Indicator 168 CHAPTER 13 Sweden 171 CHAPTER 14 Norway 175 Bibliography 179 Index 197 506 1 400 annual accesses.|5UkHlHU 650 0 Financial crises. 650 0 Economics|zEuropean Union countries. 650 0 Eurozone. 650 0 Economic indicators|zEuropean Union countries. 651 0 European Union countries|xEconomic conditions. 830 0 Bloomberg financial series. 856 40 |uhttps://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/ openreader?id=Hull&isbn=9781118440032|zGo to ebook 936 Askews