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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015

We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2021

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...

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Are the Baltic Countries Ready to Adopt the Euro? A Generalised Purchasing Power Parity Approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2021

This paper focuses on macroeconomic interdependencies between the Euro area and three transition economies (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), with the aim of establishing whether the latter are ready to adopt the Euro. The theoretical framework is based on the Generalised Purchasing Power Parity...

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Fiscal Policies and Business Cycles in an Enlarged Euro Area

Staehr, Karsten - 2008

This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future … counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European countries than in members of the eurozone. The main differences arise from … the revenue side. Differences in the formation of fiscal policy between current and future eurozone countries decrease …

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Catching-Up, Inflation Differentials and Credit Booms in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union : Some Implications for Emu and New EU Member States

MacDonald, Ronald - 2013

In this paper we propose an alternative explanation for the nature, sources and consequences of inflation rate differentials in a monetary union, such as EMU. To achieve this, we build on the new neoclassical synthesis (NNS) framework, recently advanced by Goodfriend (2002) and Goodfriend and...

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European Unemployment Revisited : Shocks, Institutions, Integration

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021

This paper painstakingly restores a vintage empirical model of unemployment determination by interacting shocks and institutions, and runs it on recent data featuring dramatic shocks and controversial institutional change. Theoretical insights and empirical results suggest that reforms and...

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Emu Enlargement, Policy Uncertainty and Economic Reforms

Hefeker, Carsten - 2021

The paper analyzes the relation between monetary uncertainty and government incentives to implement economic reforms that reduce structural distortions and make economies more flexible. It is shown that uncertainty about the central bank's reaction function leads to more reforms. I relate this...

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Euro Membership and Fiscal Reaction Functions

Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2013

The paper uses fiscal reaction functions for a panel of euro-area countries to investigate whether euro membership has reduced the responsiveness of countries to shocks in the level of inherited debt compared to the period prior to succession to the euro. While we find some evidence for such a...

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Hitting and Hoping? Meeting the Exchange Rate and Inflation Criteria During a Period of Nominal Convergence

Lewis, John - 2013

This paper analyses the problem faced by CEECs wishing to join the Euro who must hit both an inflation and exchange rate criterion during a period of nominal convergence. This process requires either an inflation differential, an appreciating nominal exchange rate, or a combination of the two,...

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External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration : Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board

Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2021

Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...

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