Bajo-Rubio, Oscar; Díaz-Roldán, Carmen - Asociación Española de Economía y Finanzas … - 2005
In this paper we analyze the nature of the shocks hitting the EMU member countries over the period 1991-2004, as well as for the two subperiods before and after 1999, i.e., the start of EMU. To this end, we first evaluate the relative importance of symmetric vs. asymmetric shocks, and then...