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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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Regional currency arrangements : insights from Europe
Christl, Josef - 2006
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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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Consumer Confidence as a Predictor of Consumption Spending : Evidence for the United States and the Euro Area
Dees, Stephane - 2011
For most academics and policy makers, the depth of the 2007-09 financial crisis, its longevity and its impacts on the real economy resulted from an erosion of confidence. This paper proposes to assess empirically the link between consumer sentiment and consumption expenditures for the United...
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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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The euro’s trade effects
Baldwin, Richard E. - 2006
This paper reviews reassesses the methodology and principal findings of the “Rose effect”, i.e. the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions. The consensus estimate suggests that the euro has already boosted intra-euro area trade by five to ten...
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Internal Devaluation in Currency Unions : The Role of Trade Costs and Taxes
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2017
This paper studies export adjustment to negative shocks in currency unions. I consider the hitherto ignored role of trade costs and taxes in internal devaluations, which have been brought to the fore of international policy during the recent euro periphery crisis. Trade costs can limit the...
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Transmission of business cycle shocks between the US and the euro area
Schneider, Martin; Fenz, Gerhard - 2008
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Proposal for a common currency among rich democracies
Cooper, Richard N. - 2006
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Interaction between US and EU monetary policy
Heimonen, Kari - 1999
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