Die andauernde Eurokrise hat deutlich gemacht, dass eine "One size fits all"-Geldpolitik für den Euroraum kaum noch möglich ist. Während die "GIIPS-Länder" der südlichen Peripherie (Griechenland, Irland, Italien, Portugal, Spanien) eine expansive Geldpolitik und einen schwachen Euro...

The literature on business cycle synchronization in Europe frequently presumes an alleged ‘core‒periphery’ pattern without providing empirical verification of the underlying cyclical (dis)similarities or the supposed but unobservable ‘European business cycle(s)’. To provide a...

The literature on international business cycles has employed dynamic factor models to disentangle global from group-specific and national factors in countries' macroeconomic aggregates. Therefore, the countries have simply been classified ex ante as belonging to the same region or the same level...