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Sufficiently flexible labour markets are considered an important precondition for countries to benefit from membership in the monetary union. Economic policy coordination within the European Community is extensive and includes issues related to labour market structures. In this paper we study...
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credibility–flexibility tradeoff in monetary policymaking. We show that if the flexibility problem dominates, an increase in … conservatism. This happens when the central bank has a sufficiently large credibility problem. This is particularly clear in the … contain useful information about the relative size of the credibility problem and, hence, about how incipient uncertainty can …
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In this paper we analyse the macroeconomic effects of peso problems by simulating numerically a small-scale rational expectations macromodel. The model is a conventional IS-LM-AS model of an open economy under floating exchange rates. The peso problem has been incorporated in the model by...
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In this study, the determination of optimal monetary policy in unionised economies is considered from the new political economy point of view. In the empirical part of the study it is shown that, in addition to the institutional position of the central bank, labour market institutions also...
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