Kunovac, Davor; Rodriguez Palenzuela, Diego; Sun, Yiqiao - 2022
index, nevertheless, shows that cyclical convergence among euro area members is not a steady process as it tends to be …We propose a new and time-varying optimum currency area (OCA) index for the euro area in assessing the evolution of the … autoregression (VAR) model. We argue that the euro area is more appropriate through the lens of empirical OCA properties when the …