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The term structure of interest rates in a heterogeneous monetary union
Costain, James; Nuño, Galo; Thomas, Carlos - 2022
We build a no-arbitrage model of the yield curves in a heterogeneous monetary union with sovereign default risk, which can account for the asymmetric shifts in euro area yields during the Covid-19 pandemic. We derive an affine term structure solution, and decompose yields into term premium and...
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Monetary union, even higher integration, or back to national currencies?
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016
This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...
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EMU enlargement, policy uncertainty and economic reforms
Hefeker, Carsten (contributor) - 2006
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Animal spirits and the international transmission of business cycles : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money & International Finance, February 2016
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2016
It is well-known that the high synchronization of the business cycles among industrial countries cannot easily be replicated in standard open economy macroeconomic models without assuming that the exogenous shocks hitting these countries are highly correlated. We develop a two-country behavioral...
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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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One size must fit all : national divergences in a monetary union
Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2000
What policy objective should a common central bank in a heterogeneous monetary union pursue? Should it base its decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates of inflation and growth? We find that a central bank that...
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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 …
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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...
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The trade and FDI effects of EMU enlargement
Brouwer, Jelle (contributor); Paap, Richard (contributor);  … - 2007
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Monetary policy in EMU when the transmission is asymmetric and uncertain
De Grauwe, Paul; Sénégas, Marc-Alexandre - 2003
In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data.We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...
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