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Cross-country insurance mechanisms in currency unions

Beers, Nancy van; Bijlsma, Michiel J.; Zwart, Gijsbert T. J. - 2014

Countries in a monetary union can adjust to shocks either through internal or external mechanisms. We quantitatively assess for the European Union a number of relevant mechanisms suggested by Mundell’s optimal currency area theory, and compare them to the United States. For this purpose, we...

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Currency unions, trade, and heterogeneity

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018

How do trade costs affect international trade? This paper offers a new approach. We rely on a flexible gravity equation that predicts variable trade cost elasticities, both across and within country pairs. We apply this framework to the effect of currency unions on international trade. While we...

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Exit strategies, capital flight and speculative attacks : Europe's version of the trilemma

Steiner, Andreas; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2017

In the winter 2011/12 a wave of internal capital flight prompted the ECB to abandon its exit strategy and to announce an unprecedented monetary expansion. We analyze this episode in several dimensions: (i) by providing an event-study analysis covering key variables from national central banks'...

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Regional currency arrangements : insights from Europe

Christl, Josef - 2006

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Cross-country unemployment insurance, transfers, and trade-offs in international risk sharing

Enders, Zeno; Vespermann, David - 2021

We assess to which degree an international transfer mechanism can enhance consumption risk sharing as well as allocative efficiency and apply our results to the implicit transfers generated by a potential European unemployment benefit scheme (EUBS). Specifically, we first develop a simple model...

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The relative importance of symmetric and asymmetric shocks : the case of United Kingdom and euro area

Peersman, Gert - 2007

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Inflation targets versus international monetary integration : a Canadian perspective

Laidler, David E. W. - 2002

The debate about Canadian-U.S. monetary integration is surveyed. The choice is among overall monetary orders,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments...

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The Euro Crisis and Economic Growth : A Novel Counterfactual Approach

Terzi, Alessio - 2019

warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific … Eurozone's specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal …

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Trade in times of uncertainty

Matzner, Anna Hilda; Meyer, Birgit; Oberhofer, Harald - 2023

This paper analyses the direct and indirect trade volume and trade cost effects of uncertainty on international trade and economic welfare using a structural gravity framework for a panel of 97 developed and developing countries from 2000 to 2018. Our results suggest that an increase in...

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An independent Scotland’s currency options redux : assessing the costs and benefits of currency choice

MacDonald, Ronald - 2014

This paper demonstrates that all of the currency options available to an independent Scotland come with the price tag of an austerity programme to the tune of £40bn. This is due to the need to accumulate foreign exchange reserves. So called Plan A - being part of a formal monetary union - comes...

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