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This Paper focuses on the pass-through of exchange rate changes into the prices of imports made by euro area countries … industry-specific rates of pass-through across and within countries for all euro members. In the short run, pass-through rates …-through rates across industries and countries can be rejected. Differences exist across euro area countries in the degree that a …
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Although recent research shows that the euro has spurred cross-border financial integration, the exact mechanisms … remain unknown. We investigate the underlying channels of the euro's effect on financial integration using data on bilateral … euro's impact on financial integration is primarily driven by eliminating the currency risk. Legislative …
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We examine macroeconomic stability and the properties of the international transmission of business cycles under three exchange rate systems: a flexible, a unilateral peg and a single currency. The subjects of study are Germany and France. EMU increases output and decreases inflation variability...
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Entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency union force a political integration (as anticipated by Monnet) or will the tensions create a backlash, as suggested by Kaldor, Friedman and many others? We try to answer...
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We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity … since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream and …
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empirical assessment of their costs and benefits. In the process, we provide evidence on the economic effects of the euro. In … particular, and in contrast with estimates of the trade effect of other currency unions, we find that the impact of the euro on …
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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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a special emphasis on the first year of the Euro. A contribution is made as to how to measure these roles, both for … identification of changes in the role of the Euro during 1999 compared to the aggregate of Euro predecessor currencies, net of intra-Euro … examined empirically. It turns out that for almost all important market segments for which data are available, the Euro …
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Widespread concern over real effects of EMU is consistent with new Keynesian approaches to macroeconomic fluctuations, but more difficult to reconcile with a real business cycle (RBC) paradigm. Using a model with frictions as a point of departure, I speculate that nominal price rigidity in...
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We ask whether Poland is at risk of the boom-bust problem that has afflicted economies around the time of euro adoption … from expectations of euro adoption will further feed that boom. On the other hand the fact that interest rates have already … converged part way to euro-area levels (and more extensively than in earlier adopters that experienced a sharp fall in rates and …
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