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Some evolutionary foundations for price level rigidity
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
This paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in face of aggregate demand shocks. Their payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on...
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Hitting and hoping? : meeting the exchange rate and inflation criteria during a period of nominal convergence
Lewis, John (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003463137
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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...
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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. -- Currency Board ; Bulgaria ; monetary shocks ; ECB interest rate ; FED …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012188
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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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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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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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Who needs foreign banks?
Gros, Daniel - 2003
This paper shows that countries with weak banking system and fiscal institutions, should benefit from the presence of foreign banks, which can constitute a commitment and transparency device. Foreign banks can also reduce the probability of self-fulfilling speculative attacks. A strong presence...
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An independent Scotland’s currency options redux : assessing the costs and benefits of currency choice
MacDonald, Ronald - 2014
This paper demonstrates that all of the currency options available to an independent Scotland come with the price tag of an austerity programme to the tune of £40bn. This is due to the need to accumulate foreign exchange reserves. So called Plan A - being part of a formal monetary union - comes...
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Catching-up and credit booms in Central and Eastern European EU member states and acceding countries : an interpretation within the new neoclassical synthesis framework
Backé, Peter (contributor); Wójcik, Cezary (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395266