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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 …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261138
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Coherence of Output Gaps in the Euro Area : The Impact of the COVID-19 Shock
de Haan, Jakob; Jacobs, Jan P. A. M.; Zijm, Renske - 2022
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...
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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 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 Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, J.; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2021
This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the ten countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a dataset of unbalanced...
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Monetary unions, external shocks and economic performance : [a Latin American perspective]
Edwards, Sebastian - 2006
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Feasibility of an Asian currency unit
Gupta, Abhijit Sen (contributor);  … - 2008
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