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This paper argues that the key issue for defining and solving the Eurozone’s (EZ) difficulties lies in readjusting the …
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Do survey data on inflation expectations contain useful information for estimating macroeconomic models? I address this question by using survey data in the New Keynesian model by Smets and Wouters (2007) to estimate and compare its performance when solved under the assumptions of Rational...
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Theory and evidence suggest that in an environment of well-anchored expectations, temporary news or shocks to economic variables, should not affect agents’ expectations of inflation in the long term. Our estimated structural VARs show that both long- and short-term inflation expectations are...
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changes in euro area break-even inflation. However, this result is only found for the second half of 2005. At that time, the …
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We provide evidence on the fit of the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curve for selected euro zone countries, the US and …
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the euro-dollar exchange rate, within a three-country, three-currency portfolio model. Our static model shows that the … euro-dollar rate, whatever the exchange-rate regime of China. Moving to a dynamic, stock-flow framework, we show that the …
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We use a macro-theory framework of analysis to assess Greek macro-policy with emphasis on the period of the Greek debt crisis. The latter is mainly the result of misguided past internal policies deviating from the policy lessons of modern macroeconomics. The current policy, however, provides a...
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The ultimate object of research concerning the Euro is to answer the following questions: (#1) What is the equilibrium … trajectory of the nominal euro, measured as dollars/euro? (#2) To what extent has the equilibrium nominal euro been determined by … transitory factors in affecting the value of the euro? (#4) Is the euro currently undervalued, and by what criteria? Our …
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We present a new approach to study empirically the effect of the introduction of the euro on currency invoicing. Our …. One of the key findings is that the eurozone countries in trade with Norway have substantially increased their share of … home currency invoicing after the introduction of the euro. In addition, the euro as a vehicle currency has overtaken the …
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This paper studies the reaction of the mean and volatility of the euro-dollar exchange rate to statements of ECB … officials during the first years of EMU. We focus on statements on monetary policy and the (potential) strength of the euro. We …. In some cases there are effects of statements on the level of the euro-dollar rate. Efforts to ‘talk up’ the euro have …
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