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Fiscal devaluation in a Monetary Union
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2013
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected in the emergence of current account imbalances. Given that exchange rate...
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Fiscal devaluation in a monetary union : conference paper
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2014
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected in the emergence of current account imbalances. Given that exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487256
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Cross-border banking and business cycles in asymmetric currency unions
Dräger, Lena; Proaño Acosta, Christian - 2015
Against the background of the recent housing boom and bust in countries such as Spain and Ireland, we investigate in this paper the macroeconomic consequences of cross-border banking in monetary unions such as the euro area. For this purpose, we incorporate in an otherwise standard two-region...
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Thoughts on a fiscal union in EMU
Gadatsch, Niklas; Hollmayr, Josef; Stähler, Nikolai - 2016
Using an estimated large-scale New-Keynesian model, we assess welfare and business cycle consequences of a fiscal union within EMU. We differentiate between three different scenarios: public revenue equalisation, tax harmonisation and a centralised fiscal authority. Relative to the status quo,...
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Transmission of global financial shocks to EMU member states : the role of monetary policy and national factors
Gelman, Maria; Jochem, Axel; Reitz, Stefan - 2016
The paper analyses the transmission of global financial shocks to individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), in which monetary policy is delegated to the ECB and financial markets are fully integrated. Using a panel VAR model, we show that the asymmetric effects of global...
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Is it really more dispersed? : measuring and comparing the stress from the common monetary policy in the euro area
Quint, Dominic - 2014
The ECB's one size monetary policy is unlikely to fit all euro area members at all times, which raises the question of how much monetary policy stress this causes at the national level. I measure monetary policy stress as the difference between actual ECB interest rates and Taylor-rule implied...
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Central Europe and European monetary integration : a strategy for catching up
Heinemann, Friedrich - 1994
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Currency unions, trade and heterogeneity
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2018
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The Euro and the Crisis : Perspectives for the Eurozone as a Monetary and Budgetary Union
Gonçalves, José Renato (ed.); Cunha Rodrigues, Nuno (ed.) - 2017
dominating the Eurozone and the European Union, concerning both the monetary policy and the budgetary and fiscal policy. The …Part 1 - The Eurozone as a (non) Optimum Currency Area -- STIGLITZ, Joseph. The fundamental flaws in the Euro Zone … Costa. The Eurozone’s Private and Governmental Shock Absorbers: Current Setup and Future Prospects -- RODRIGUES, Nuno Cunha …
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Monetary Integration in Europe : The European Monetary Union after the Financial Crisis
Tomann, Horst - 2017 - 2nd ed. 2017
This book provides a fully revised and up-to-date analysis of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). With four entirely new chapters on responses to the financial crisis and the debate on reform options, Tomann assesses the EMU in comparison with other currency regimes through the adoption of a...
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