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The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...
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The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781545
. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption …
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With fixed costs of price and quantity adjustment, output effects of inflation depend on the elasticity of the firm …'s marginal real revenue. If the elasticity always exceeds minus unity, then output decreases with inflation, while if the … elasticity is always less than minus unity, then output increases with inflation. In the special case that the elasticity always …
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the traditional results on the impact of inflation. In particular, recent findings suggest that quantity-adjustment costs … may remove the linkage between output and inflation. We show that this is not the case when inflation is anticipated. On …
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