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Spillovers between the US and euro area term structures of interest rates are examined. Implications for monetary … variance decompositions, following Diebold and Yilmaz (2009), it is found that transatlantic spillovers have increased by …
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responses in the model output, suggesting that exchange rates did not act as buffers for spillovers of euro area non …
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we allow for cross-Atlantic spillovers while also accounting for the unique role of the US in the global financial system …. Our results underline the importance of US spillovers and shifts in global risk sentiment for understanding the dynamics …
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This paper empirically assesses the prospects for house price spillovers in the euro area, where co-movement in house …) over the period 1989-2007. The results suggest limited house price spillovers in the euro area, with evidence of some … this aggregate development are rather heterogeneous house price spillovers at the country level, with a strong importance …
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that explores the effects of these policies on domestic and foreign production to disentangle the potential spill-overs …
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Will EMU accelerate or retard structural reform in labour and product markets? The theoretical literature is ambiguous. New descriptive evidence provided in this paper suggests that euro-area countries have made relatively good progress in structural reform. However, it is much less clear...
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the empirical relevance of real convergence on the process of nominal convergence for the new EU Member States. We discuss two of the main channels through which real convergence could affect relative prices with respect to the euro area: productivity...
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This paper examines two competing approaches for calculating current account benchmarks, i.e. the external sustainability approach á la Lane and Milesi-Ferretti (LM) versus the structural current accounts literature (SCA) based on panel econometric techniques. The aim is to gauge the medium...
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We investigate the public-private wage differentials in ten euro area countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain). To account for differences in employment characteristics between the two sectors, we focus on micro data taken from EU-SILC....
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The global financial crisis has led to a revival of the empirical literature on current account imbalances. This paper contributes to that literature by investigating the importance of evaluating model and parameter uncertainty prior to reaching any firm conclusion. We explore three alternative...
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