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Risk Sharing in Currency Unions : The Migration Channel

Kohler, Wilhelm; Müller, Gernot J.; Wellmann, Susanne - 2021

Country-specific business cycle fluctuations are potentially very costly for member states of currency unions because they lack monetary autonomy. The actual costs depend on the extent to which consumption is shielded from these fluctuations and thus on the extent of risk sharing across member...

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Paths to Eurobonds

Claessens, Stijn; Mody, Ashoka; Vallee, Shahin - 2012

infrastructures and political safeguards. -- Eurobonds ; eurozone ; fiscal risk-sharing ; European ; Monetary Union …

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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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Regional and global financial safety nets : the recent European experience and its implications for regional cooperation in Asia

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2017

This paper compares financial assistance programmes of four euro-area countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus) and three non-euro-area countries (Hungary, Latvia, and Romania) of the European Union in the aftermath of the 2007/08 global financial and economic crisis-which were supported...

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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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Reforming the Euro Pragmatically : Towards Sustainable Fiscal Policy and a Revamped Eurosystem

Oksanen, Heikki - 2019

The conflicting standpoints on reforming the euro are creating more controversies than practical results. Mistrust between the participants led to short-sighted fiscal discipline that has amplified the economic disturbances. Expert analysis on the proposed reforms is often deficient as the...

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Sustainability and Solvency of Government Finances Under the Euro : Illustrations and Policy Options

Oksanen, Heikki - 2020

In this paper, sound public finances under the euro means sustainability in the long term instead of short- and medium-term fiscal discipline. The challenges to sustainability are identified for the four largest euro area member states, and several policy options for sustainability are...

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New Output Gap Estimates for Assessing Fiscal Policy with Lessons for Euro Area Reform

Oksanen, Heikki - 2019

Output gaps (OG) identify economic cycles and the cyclical and structural components in government budget balances. A new simple method for estimating OGs is presented here. The new results are more transparent than those published by the leading economic policy institutions. - The retroactive...

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