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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354695
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Regional currency arrangements : insights from Europe
Christl, Josef - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003340416
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The relative importance of symmetric and asymmetric shocks : the case of United Kingdom and euro area
Peersman, Gert - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003511397
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Internal devaluation in currency unions : the role of trade costs and taxes
Petroulakis, Filippos - 2017
This paper studies export adjustment to negative shocks in currency unions. I consider the hitherto ignored role of trade costs and taxes in internal devaluations, which have been brought to the fore of international policy during the recent euro periphery crisis. Trade costs can limit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639619
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The euro's trade effects
Baldwin, Richard E. (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper reviews reassesses the methodology and principal findings of the "Rose effect", i.e. the trade effects of currency union, looking at both EMU and non-EMU currency unions. The consensus estimate suggests that the euro has already boosted intra-euro area trade by five to ten percent....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003290336
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The euro bloc, the dollar bloc and the yen bloc : how much monetary policy independence can exchange rate flexibility buy in an interdependent world?
Fratzscher, Marcel (contributor) - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001702791
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Consumer confidence as a predictor of consumption spending : evidence for the United States and the euro area
Dées, Stéphane; Soares Brinca, Pedro - 2011
For most academics and policy makers, the depth of the 2007-09 financial crisis, its longevity and its impacts on the real economy resulted from an erosion of confidence. This paper proposes to assess empirically the link between consumer sentiment and consumption expenditures for the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009160013
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Introducing dominant currency pricing in the ECB's global macroeconomic model
Georgiadis, Georgios; Mösle, Saskia - 2019
A large share of global trade being priced and invoiced primarily in US dollar rather than the exporter's or the importer's currency has important implications for the transmission of shocks. We introduce this "dominant currency pricing" (DCP) into ECB-Global, the ECB's macroeconomic model for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107938
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International capital flows at the security level : evidence from the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme
Bergant, Katharina; Fidora, Michael; Schmitz, Martin - 2020
We analyse euro area investors' portfolio rebalancing during the ECB's Asset Purchase Pro- gramme at the security level. Based on net transactions of domestic and foreign securities, we observe euro area sectors' capital ows into individual securities, cleaned from valuation effects. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197845
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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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