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

Peersman, Gert - 2007

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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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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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