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The Political Economy Under Monetary Union : Has the Euro Made a Difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2021

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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The Maastricht Convergence Criteria and Optimal Monetary Policy for the EMU Accession Countries

Lipinska, Anna - 2021

The EMU accession countries are obliged to fulfill the Maastricht convergence criteria prior to entering the EMU. This paper uses a DSGE model of a two-sector small open economy, to address the following question: how do the Maastricht convergence criteria modify optimal monetary policy in an...

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Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Enlarged European Union

Pogorelec, Sabina - 2021

I build a quantitative two-country DSGE model of the European Union (EU) and investigate whether there are welfare … gains from fiscal policy cooperation between the new EU members and the euro area (EMU). Fiscal cooperation is defined in … firms in the new EU countries. When there is no foreign ownership in the new EU countries, the euro area is indifferent …

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Monetary Policy, Bank Capital and Credit Supply : A Role for Discouraged and Informally Rejected Firms

Popov, Alexander A. - 2013

data on the credit experience of firms in 8 economies that use the euro or are pegged to it over 2004-2007, and analyze the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075926

Implications of Monetary Union for Catching-Up Member States

Sanchez, Marcelo - 2021

We examine the implications of monetary union for macroeconomic stabilisation in catching up participating countries. We allow member states' supply conditions to differ inside the union, especially with regard to sectoral characteristics. Sectoral productivity shocks on balance hamper the...

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Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Performance in the Euro Area Countries : A Model-Based Assessment

Gomes, Sandra - 2011

We quantitatively assess the macroeconomic effects of country-specific supply-side reforms in the euro area by simulating EAGLE, a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model. We consider reforms in the labor and services markets of Germany (or, alternatively, Portugal) and the rest of the...

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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the Euro Area : NMCM - With Boundedly Rational Learning Expectations

Dieppe, Alistair - 2011

Rational expectations has been the dominant way to model expectations, but the literature has quickly moved to a more realistic assumption of boundedly rational learning where agents are assumed to use only a limited set of information to form their expectations. A standard assumption is that...

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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the Euro Area : NMCM - Simulated with Rational Expectations

Dieppe, Alistair - 2011

The model presented here is a New estimated medium-scale Multi-Country Model (NMCM) which covers the five largest euro area countries and is used for forecasting and scenarios analysis at the European Central Bank. The model has a tight theoretical structure which allows for non-unitary...

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Does the Euro Make a Difference? Spatio-Temporal Transmission of Global Shocks to Real Effective Exchange Rates in an Infinite VAR

Bussière, Matthieu - 2011

This paper provides evidence on whether the creation of the euro has changed the way global turbulences affect euro area and other economies. Specifically, it considers the impact of global shocks on the competitiveness of individual euro area countries and assesses whether their responses to...

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The Minimum Liquidity Deficit and the Maturity Structure of Central Banks' Open Market Operations : Lessons from the Financial Crisis

Eisenschmidt, Jens - 2011

This paper studies the relationship between the size of the banking sector's refinancing needs vis-à-vis the central bank and auction rates in its open market operations in times of financial market stress. In a theoretical model, it is found that marginal rates at central bank auctions may...

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