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The paper critically considers the endogenous Optimum Currency Areas (or e-OCAs) theory, focussing initially on early studies having identified a relevant link between the creation of a monetary union and an upgrading of trade intensity between member countries, on the one hand, and the increase...
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The increased heterogeneity of the European market after the prospective joining of the acceding countries to EMU could … will decrease, implying a more difficult stabilisation task for the governance authorities of EMU. Yet all this does not … necessarily imply a possible disruption of EMU. In the paper two exercises are presented for assessing the impact of enlargement …
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for the future of EMU. As regards the former aspect, the paper stresses that, differently from a widespread view in the …, in the years ahead, to enhance EMU credibility and long run viability. …
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This paper studies the relationship between EMU sustainability and the European Political Union. Following De Grauwe … setting up of EMU could produce shocks putting at risk the latter’s survival. Long term sustainability of EMU requires a full …
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The implications of exchange rate regimes on economic growth have received renewed attention in the aftermath of the recent global financial crisis. Creating both bivariate and tripartite regime classifications the present study examines their impact on growth for 156 nations spanning the period...
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In this paper we investigate the skirmishes that the US dollar and the euro had from 2007 to 2011 and, in particular … financial centres. - In questo lavoro si tratta delle schermaglie che il dollaro statunitense e l’euro hanno ingaggiato dal 2007 … cambio euro/dollaro attraverso gli spread nei tassi interbancari LIBOR. Vi è una sorta di ciclo negli spread sui LIBOR e …
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This paper addresses an interesting theoretical intuition, originally put forward in De Grauwe (1989), according to which market efficiency should find stronger support in a pegged exchange rate regime rather than in a purely floating context. To this purpose, we extend to a selected group of...
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The target zones literature has developed extensively after the seminal papers by Krugman (1987, 1988). The literature has followed two waves: in the first wave, following the original Krugman model, all the articles assumed a perfectly credible target zone and the absence of intramarginal...
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This paper addresses an interesting theoretical intuition, originally put forward in De Grauwe (1989), according to which market efficiency should find stronger support in a pegged exchange rate regime rather than in a purely floating context. A cointegration-based empirical investigation on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008481998
Focusing on the 1992-93 crisis of the European Monetary System (Ems), I stress, in opposition with the conclusions reached by “escape clause” models, the role played by the availability of foreign reserves. In particular, I show the lack of credibility of the Bundesbank’s commitment to...
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