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and prices in the new EU member states. We investigate the exchange rate pass-through to import, producer and consumer …
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competitiveness and intra-EU imbalances. But how to measure properly competitiveness, beyond price or cost competitiveness, remains an … open methodological issue; and what is the resilience of producers located in the EU to the competition of emerging … on an econometric shift-share decomposition and we consider the EU-27 as an integrated economy, excluding intra-EU trade …
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eventually converges towards a positive long run effect. However, this phenomenon is only observed in EU countries. Our analysis …
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This study investigates the pricing behaviour of firms in the euro area on the basis of surveys conducted by nine Eurosystem national central banks, covering more than 11,000 firms. The results, robust across countries, show that firms operate in monopolistically competitive markets, where...
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This paper offers a comprehensive comparison of the structure of banking and financial markets in the euro area. Based on this, several hypotheses about the role of banks in monetary policy transmission are developed. Many of the predictions that have been proposed for the U.S. are deemed...
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In order to provide medium run forecasts of headline and core HICP inflation for the euro area, we assess the usefulness of dynamic factor models. We use Stock and Watson's (1999) out-of-sample methodology for models estimated over the 1988:1-2002:3 period, with balanced and unbalanced panels....
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This paper focuses on the price stability objective within the framework of the single monetary policy strategy. It starts by reviewing what this objective, which is common to all central banks, means. Secondly, this paper will focus exclusively on the anchoring of short- to medium-term...
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The paper implements a consistent empirical strategy in order to investigate the behaviour of the markup over the cycle and its contribution to inflation movements.We model the price series as I(2) components and use polynomial cointegration in order to recover a long-run price schedule. We do...
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monetary policy stance in EU12 over the last two decades. While our TVNRI estimate seems quite robust to changes in model …
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This paper proposes a full description of the Calvo price-setting model based on partial prices indexation and studies the interaction between partial indexation and trend inflation. We show that using a hybrid version of the Phillips curve partly decreases the risks of overestimate due to the...
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