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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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Is the Eurozone on the mend? : Latin American examples to analyze the euro question
Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Fernández Arias, Eduardo; Powell, … - 2014
economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286667
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Germany and the euroland crisis : the making of a vulnerable haven
Bibow, Jörg - 2013
This paper investigates Germany's vulnerability to the ongoing Euroland crisis. In 2010-11, Germany experienced a strong rebound from the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The Euroland crisis then meant record low interest rates and a depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But...
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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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Fiscal stabilization in the United States : lessons for monetary unions
Nikolov, Plamen; Pasimeni, Paolo - 2019
The debate about the use of fiscal instruments for macroeconomic stabilization has regained prominence in the aftermath of the Great Recession, and the experience of a monetary union equipped with fiscal shock absorbers, such as the United States, has often been a reference. This paper enhances...
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The effect of monetary unification on public debt and its real return
Beetsma, Roel; Vermeylen, Koen - 2005
We explore the implications of monetary unification for real interest rates and (relative) public debt levels. The adoption of a common monetary policy renders the risk-return characteristics of the participating countries more similar, so that the substitutability of their public debt increases...
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Reducing economic imbalances in the euro area : some remarks on the current stability programs, 2011-14
Semieniuk, Gregor; Treeck, Till van; Truger, Achim - 2011
This paper evaluates whether the 2011 national stability programs (SPs) of the euro area countries are instrumental in achieving economic stability in the European Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, we analyze how the SPs address the double challenge of public deficits and external imbalances....
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Fiscal divergence and current account imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
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The euro debt crisis and Germany's euro trilemma
Bibow, Jörg - 2012
This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that the crisis is not primarily a "sovereign debt crisis" but rather a (twin) banking and balance of payments crisis. Intra-area competitiveness and current account imbalances, and...
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Going forward from B to A? : proposals for the Eurozone crisis
Amato, Massimo; Fantacci, Luca; Papadimitriou, Dimitri Basil - 2016
After reviewing the main determinants of the current eurozone crisis, this paper discusses the feasibility of … austerity measures in order to abide by their commitments to eurozone institutions and the International Monetary Fund. We show … that the introduction of fiscal currencies would speed up the recovery, without violating the rules of eurozone treaties …
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