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This Selected Issues Paper assesses Macedonia’s public debt markets and presents recommendations for their further development. Macedonia’s domestic debt market is in the early stages of development and is small by regional standards. The paper also analyzes the main causes of...
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the euro area. The model includes real, nominal and financial frictions, and hence both monetary and macroprudential …
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euro area to offset the negative impact of fiscal consolidation required to put public debt back on a sustainable path. The …
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euro area countries, other advanced European countries (including the Nordics, the UK, etc.), and the Central, Eastern and … weaker linkages bewteen inflation and real credit growth within Europe. While the euro area is the dominant source of …
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two-country DSGE model for the U.K. economy and the euro area, and use the model to compute the welfare trade-offs from … joining the euro. We evaluate two alternative scenarios. In the first one, we consider a reduction of trade costs that occurs …
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This paper discusses comovement between inflation and output in the euro area. The strength of the comovement may not … half of its variance. The strong relationship of output and inflation hints at the importance of demand shocks for the euro …
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This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that Slovakia’s economic performance has improved since the 2003 Article IV Consultation. Output has expanded strongly, and fiscal and external balances have narrowed substantially in recent years. These developments were assisted by large...
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This 2005 Article IV Consultation highlights that Malta’s economic growth languished in 2004 for a fourth consecutive year. Slow growth reflected the weakness of, and increasing competition in, Malta’s export markets, as well as domestic factors. The slowdown had begun with shocks...
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derogation from adopting the euro as their currency (that is, each country joining the EU commits to replace its national … currency with the euro, but can choose when to request permission to do so). For most of these countries, adopting the euro … convergence with the rest of the euro area. …
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United States and the euro area, and we perform model comparisons to study the importance of departing from the law of one …
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