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Structural distortions and decentralized fiscal policies in EMU

Beetsma, Roel; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2001

The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a...

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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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The sovereign default problem in the Eurozone : an insurance-based approach

Arnold, Nadjeschda Katharina; Rees, Ray - 2015

This paper argues that the Eurozone crisis stems from a risk management failure in the Eurosystem's design, and that …

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Fiscal delegation in a monetary union with decentralized public spending

Basso, Henrique S.; Costain, James - 2016

In a monetary union, the interaction between several governments and a single central bank is plagued by several sources of deficit bias, including common pool problems. Each government has strong preferences over local spending and taxation but suffers only part of the costs of union-wide...

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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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Smoothing asymmetric shocks vs. redistribution in the euro area : a simple proposal for dealing with mistrust in the euro area

Oksanen, Heikki - 2016 - This version 2016-03-22

The euro area will not have a centralised budget and smoothing of country-specific asymmetric shocks via private financial markets will develop only slowly. Mistrust among the governments has caused rigid, even pro-cyclical fiscal policies. Smoothing mechanisms are absent due to the fear that...

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Common monetary policy with asymmetric shocks

Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2002

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 welfare losses based on national rates of inflation and growth?...

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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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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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