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of the world. The intraregional exchange rate variability is thus latent. A two-step procedure is developed to measure …
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The world economy is going through its biggest transformation in a relatively short space time. There have been many … seems little understood. In turn, there has been little preparation for, or adjustment to, this changing world, though if …. We highlight the dramatic degree of the shifts taking place in world GDP and trade and include fresh projections of what …
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Several European countries face challenges reminiscent of those faced by the emerging economies of Latin America. The economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and then the busts including Sudden Stops in capital...
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Countries in a monetary union can adjust to shocks either through internal or external mechanisms. We quantitatively assess for the European Union a number of relevant mechanisms suggested by Mundell’s optimal currency area theory, and compare them to the United States. For this purpose, we...
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Divergent macro-economic developments within a currency area can lead to undesired distortions. That is why in the Eurozone much attention was drawn to the homogeneity of the currency area. However, at the beginning the Eurozone seemed to be too heterogeneous for a common currency. So many hopes...
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