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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
Alesina, Alberto - 2000
What is the optimal number of currencies in the world? Common currencies affect trading costs and, thereby, the amounts of trade, output, and consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, the adoption of another country's currency trades off the benefits of commitment to price stability...
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Fiscal Federalism and Optimum Currency Areas : Evidence for Europe From the United States
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 1991
The main goal of this paper is to estimate to what extent the federal government of the United States insures member states against regional income shocks. We find that a one dollar reduction in a region's per capita personal income triggers a decrease in federal taxes of about 34 cents and an...
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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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Participation in a Currency Union
Casella, Alessandra - 1990
When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines the minimum power that each country requires in the common decision-making. <br><bR>This paper studies the problem in the context of a monetary union - multiple countries sharing a...
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-EMU Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
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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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No Single Currency Regime is Right for All Countries or At All Times
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1999
This essay considers some prescriptions that are currently popular regarding exchange rate regimes: a general movement toward floating, a general movement toward fixing, or a general movement toward either extreme and away from the middle. The whole spectrum from fixed to floating is covered...
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