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(1970 - 2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides …
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In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data.We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...
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10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …
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In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a … model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high …
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There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the ECB's monetary policies. In order to test this "ECB-handicap" hypothesis, we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries....
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Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly … asymmetric changes in the trade volumes of the incumbent countries of the EU as a result of the EU-Turkey CU. By examining … disaggregated trade data we find that the technologically sophisticated EU countries (e.g., mainly the Northern European countries …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the euro-dollar exchange rate and its underlying fundamentals. First, we develop a simple theoretical model in which chartists and fundamentalists interact. This model predicts the existence of different regimes, and thus nonlinearities in the...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of central bank interventions (CBI) in a noise trading model with chartists and fundamentalists. We first estimate a model in which chartists extrapolate past returns and fundamentalists forecast a mean reverting dynamics of the exchange rate towards a...
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