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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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We study cross-country differences in monetary policy transmission across the large four euro-area countries (France …
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The paper evaluates current account dynamics in countries with different exchange rate regimes within the EU. In this, the empirical analysis explicitly differentiates between countries with a flexible and a fixed exchange rate regime and members of a monetary union. In addition, we model the...
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The scholarly debate on currency internationalization focuses on country characteristics and policies as the main determinants in currency competition. However, this literature has neglected the fact that, given the intertwined nature of the international monetary system, other countries'...
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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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addition, changes in sovereign and bank risk are believed to have had strong effects on world-wide exchange rates. This paper … those of bailouts. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the Euro depreciates significantly against the Yen and US Dollar … following general risk shocks in the euro area and only to a small extent following bailout shocks. The Pound Sterling is not …
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Euro coins have a common European side and an individual national side. Thanks to coin migration, coins bearing a … panoply of national sides are in circulation throughout the euro area. In this paper, we model the mixing of coins circulating … in the euro area countries and in particular the extent of coin migration in the euro area. A model calibration suggests …
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’s handling of the euro crisis. We link models of multiple equilibria with the IMF's experience made in Latin American crises in …
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