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Can non-linear real shocks explain the persistence of PPP exchange rate disequilibria?

Peltonen, Tuomas A.; Popescu, Adina; Sager, Michael - European Central Bank - 2009

typicallyproceed along two distinct paths, resorting either to the presence of real shocks suchas productivity differentials that drive …

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Does it pay to have the euro? Italy’s politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2009

There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutionsare fundamental for a country’s prosperity. The paper focuses on political events inItaly over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 hashelped insulate Italy’s financial...

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What explains global exchange rate movements during the financial crisis?

Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2009

A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...

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Productivity shocks and real exchange rate: a reappraisal

Peltonen, Tuomas A.; Sager, Michael - European Central Bank - 2009

We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchangerates using a panel estimation … ofnon-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity shocks in exchange ratedetermination. We find evidence of significant … correlation between real exchangerates and productivity differentials in both sectors. But our finding of a significant rolefor …

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Inflation dynamics with labour market matching: assessing alternative specifications

Christoffel, Kai; Costain, James S.; De Walque, Gregory; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assessestheir implications for ination dynamics through both their e¤ect on marginalcost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, weconsider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...

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Downward wage rigidity and optimal steady-state inflation

Fagan, Gabriel; Messina, Julián - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper examines the impact of downward wage rigidity (nominal and real) onoptimal steady-state inflation. For this … andFinland). The calibrated heterogeneous agent models are then solved for differentsteady state rates of inflation to derive …

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