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This paper studies firms' price-setting decision during a currency changeover. Buyers' difficulties with the new nominal price level create incentives to raise prices temporarily but doing so comes at the risk of damaging a seller's reputation in the long run. We model firms' trade-off and study...
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This paper uncovers the response pattern to global shocks of euro area countries' real effective exchange rates before … and after the start of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), a largely open ended question when the euro was created. We …-EMU responses of euro area countries to global risk aversion shocks have become similar to those of Italy, Portugal or Spain before …
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This paper explores how different types of financial regulation could combat many of the phenomena that were observed in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. The primary contribution is the introduction of a model that includes both a banking system and a “shadow banking system” that each...
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This paper analyzes a two-country model of currency, banks and endogenous default to study whether impediments to credit market integration across jurisdictions impact the desirability of a currency union. We show that when those impediments induce a higher cost for banks to manage cross-border...
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