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The fragility of two monetary regimes : the European monetary system and the Eurozone
Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened. This came at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210104
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Structural reforms and the enlargement of monetary union
Hefeker, Carsten - 2000
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
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The trade and FDI effects of EMU enlargement
Brouwer, Jelle Hindriks (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612738
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Catching up : the role of demand, supply and regulated price effects on the real exchange rates of four accession countries
MacDonald, Ronald; Wójcik, Cezary - 2003
The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession countries, with a view to making policy recommendations regarding their accession to full European Monetary Union. We employ a dynamic OLS panel estimator to investigate the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506491
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619626
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Seignorage wealth in the Eurosystem : eurowinners and eurolosers revisited
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Feist, Holger - 2000
The rules laid down in Article 32 of the Protocol No. 18 on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank of the Maastricht Treaty will significantly redistribute European seignorage income and hence the implicit entitlement to the 352 billion stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781634
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On optimal currency areas and common cycles : are the acceding countries ready to join the euro?
Grimm, Louisa; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2021
The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...
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The Eurozone as an inflation target zone
Della Posta, Pompeo; Tamborini, Roberto - 2022
In the revised monetary policy strategy of the European Central Bank (ECB), "price stability is best maintained by aiming for two per cent inflation over the medium term", with "symmetric commitment" to this target. "Symmetry means that the Governing Council considers negative and positive...
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Nominal wage flexibility, wage indexation and monetary union
Calmfors, Lars; Johansson, Åsa - 2002
Membership in a monetary union implies stronger incentives for nominal wage flexibility in the form of wage indexation and shorter contract length than nonmembership. For example, entry into a monetary union may cause a move from a non-indexation to an indexation equilibrium. But more wage...
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One country, one vote? : labor market structure and voting rights in the ECB
Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten - 2004
The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402520