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The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

Alogoskoufis, George; Portes, Richard; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

*The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro … financial markets and thickness externalities in the use of the euro as means of payment will be the major factors determining … the importance of the euro as an international currency. As euro securities markets become deeper and more liquid and …

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Exchange Rate Bands and Optimal Monetary Accommodation Under a Dirty Float

Beetsma, Roel; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper studies regimes of managed exchange rates for a small open economy with an integrated capital market, rational expectations in financial markets, sluggish nominal wages and prices, and supply shocks that follow a Brownian motion. Each regime can be characterized by the degree to which...

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Macroeconomic Stabilization and Intervention Policy Under an Exchange Rate Band

Beetsma, Roel; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The distributional effects of the minimum wage are analysed in a model where skilled and unskilled labour enter the production function. It is argued that distributional goals are best achieved by letting the labour market clear and achieving redistribution through taxes and transfers.

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The Macroeconomic Costs and Benefits of the EMU and other Monetary Unions: An Overview of Recent Research

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This article provides an overview of recent research into the macroeconomic costs and benefits of monetary unification. We are primarily interested in Europe’s monetary union. Given that unification entails the loss of a policy instrument its potential benefits have to be found elsewhere....

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The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

Portes, Richard; Rey, Hélène - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We apply a new approach to a new panel data set on bilateral gross cross-border equity flows between 14 countries, 1989-96. The remarkably good results have strong implications for theories of asset trade. We find that the geography of information heavily determines the pattern of international...

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Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-area

Palladini, Giorgia; Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

six Euro-area countries over the period 2004-2011. As a first step, the supposed non stationarity of the two series is …

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Finance, Trade and Development: Issues in Transatlantic Cooperation

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

Despite current economic problems and conflicts - or perhaps as their cause - the concordance of policies among the major industrial countries in the first half of the 1980s in dealing with finance, trade and development is at a peak. This has been the result not so much of cooperation or...

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Global Financial Markets and Financial Stability: Europe's Role

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

interaction between globalisation and regional integration. This paper discusses the internationalisation of the euro and draws …Europe's contribution to the international financial system is a new currency, the euro. Economic and Monetary Union in …

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Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves: The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar

Papaioannou, Elias; Portes, Richard; Siourounis, Gregorios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Foreign exchange reserve accumulation has risen dramatically in recent years. The introduction of the euro, greater … currencies. Making various assumptions on expected currency returns and the variance-covariance structure, we assess how the euro …-free) currency. (ii) The optimum portfolios show a much lower weight for the euro than is observed. This suggests that the euro may …

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The Euro and the International Financial System

Portes, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper analyses the issues raised by EMU for the relationships between the Euro area and the international … financial system. The depreciation of the Euro exchange rate since the beginning of EMU has attracted most attention. The Paper … authorities should take a more active policy stance. The Paper assesses the role of the Euro as an international currency and the …

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