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on 1 May 2004 into the euro area. Most NMS have undergone a rapid and deep transformation in all areas with considerable … the euro area in the process of labour market and institutional reform (their labour market structures are more flexible … than those of the euro area countries). There is also some evidence that a few NMS have a significant degree of business …
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The start of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has spurred a new interest in the debate on the effects of monetary unions on regional economic integration. This literature either investigates past episodes of monetary unions or attempts to gauge any effect with a few years of EMU...
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-making, and thereby facilitates the maintenance of price stability in the euro area. A fully-fledged committee structure has also … contributed to the smooth integration of non-euro area Member States into the Eurosystem’s monetary policy decision-making process. …
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the euro area. Employment began to rise again in the first half of 2011, but declined once more at the end of that year … fall in GDP, employment adjustment has been relatively muted at the aggregate euro area level, mostly due to significant … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …
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-making, and thereby facilitates the maintenance of price stability in the euro area. A fully-fledged committee structure has also … contributed to the smooth integration of non-euro area Member States into the Eurosystem's monetary policy decision-making process …
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in response to the euro area crisis. The paper complements the economic narratives of the crisis with an institutional …
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This paper reviews the debate on the longer-term requirements for safeguarding the euro as a currency beyond the state … financial governance in the wake of the euro area crisis goes a long way towards creating the minimum conditions for a more … required' to stabilise the euro area as a whole rather than sharing their sovereignty in common institutions to achieve this …
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Ensuring the involvement of private sector creditors in the resolution of sovereign debt crises is crucial to ensure an effective management and orderly resolution of those crises. A review of experience gained in past financial crises suggests that crisis management practices have been largely...
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In this paper, we take a systematic look at global imbalances. First, we provide a definition of the phenomenon, and relate global imbalances to widening external positions of systemically important economies that reflect distortions or entail risks for the global economy. Second, we provide an...
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This paper discusses the structural implications of real and financial globalisation, with the aim of drawing lessons for the conduct of monetary policy and, in particular, for the assessment of risks to price stability. The first conclusion of the paper is that globalisation may have played...
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