Coenen, Günter; Lombardo, Giovanni; Smets, Frank; … - 2008
policy cooperation. The model is calibrated in order to match a set of empirical moments. We then derive the cooperative and … cooperation. For example, increasing the trade shares to 32 percent of GDP in both regions, the gains from cooperation rise to … about 1 percent of steady-state consumption. By decomposing the sources of the gains from cooperation with respect to the …