As you know, when Greece joined the euro area in 2001, its long-term interest rates converged with Germany's (core country of the euro area). This long-rate convergence had also occurred within the set of original euro area members, around the time of the advent of the euro (1998). During the global financial crisis, some of those spreads have reemerged, and recently, Greek 10-year rates were about 1,000 basis points higher than Germany's. Given your reading of the case, and in light of the theory covered in our lectures answer the following questions: Q1) Do you think the level of German long-term rates will increase or decrease over the next year? Why
As you know, when Greece joined the euro area in 2001, its long-term interest rates converged with Germany's (core country of the euro area). This long-rate convergence had also occurred within the set of original euro area members, around the time of the advent of the euro (1998). During the global financial crisis, some of those spreads have reemerged, and recently, Greek 10-year rates were about 1,000 basis points higher than Germany's. Given your reading of the case, and in light of the theory covered in our lectures answer the following questions: Q1) Do you think the level of German long-term rates will increase or decrease over the next year? Why
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As you know, when Greece joined the euro area in 2001, its long-term interest rates converged with Germany's (core country of the euro area). This long-rate convergence had also occurred within the set of original euro area members, around the time of the advent of the euro (1998). During the global financial crisis, some of those spreads have reemerged, and recently, Greek 10-year rates were about 1,000 basis points higher than Germany's. Given your reading of the case, and in light of the theory covered in our lectures answer the following questions:
- Q1) Do you think the level of German long-term rates will increase or decrease over the next year? Why
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