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This paper investigates the rationality of proceeding with a common currency in West Africa by testing for symmetry and speed of adjustment to four underlying structural shocks among a pair of 66 ECOWAS economies. The findings reveal that there is relatively high degree of symmetry in the...
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This paper examines the mechanism of persistent inflation differentials, current account imbalances, and fiscal … behavior generates problems, such as inflation differentials, and the stability and growth pact does not appear to be … politically unified. In addition, the inflation differentials provide clear evidence that inflation acceleration is not caused by …
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This paper theoretically examines a way out of the euro crisis based on a model of inflation acceleration and … generates inflation differentials and huge current account imbalances among member states. As a result, although relatively more …
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-in-advance constraints both in the factor markets and in the good markets. Simulations show that common money inflation in the union have …
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Although Europe is about to introduce a commom monetary policy with one common European currency, the euro, estimating the expected costs and income is not an easy task. This paper analyzes in-depth the benefits of the euro. The prospects are positive.
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of a monetary union in terms of a weighted average of objectives for inflation and output in each of the member countries …, instead of union-wide aggregate inflation and output, can have an important impact on the effective weight each member country … or not monetary policy contributes to harmonize inflation and output across the union. …
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formulated at the beginning, one also notes that inflation has a negative effect on the economic growth. These results emphasize …
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particular, technical estimation models of spatial-dynamic panel that provide opportunities to consider the effects of … neighborhood and unobserved heterogeneity of countries of the region to analyze the effects of Policy mix on inflation, the output … mechanism of propagation of shocks affecting the level of inflation and a mecanisme for output stabilization. …
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opinions that the inflation target chosen at 2% by ECB for the Eurozone is too low, thereby making the whole MPS excessively … restrictive. I conclude observing that the “core” inflation-target of 2% is in fact at the very basis of the ECB non …, since the inflation target wasn’t in any jeopardy, the European Central Bank didn’t do anything. Maintaining the goal of …
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data from 1996-97Q1 to 2011-12Q4. It finds that both the shocks impact real output growth and inflation in the short …. An unanticipated hike/reduction in policy rate leads to a symmetric decline/rise in inflation. An unanticipated change in … money supply leads to higher inflation, but a similar decrease in it has no significant impact on inflation. …
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