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This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better fiscal performance, especially when transfer dependency of...
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of them have been tracking either the euro or the US dollar in recent years. Eight countries, all of them current or … aspiring EU members, track the euro. Of the five countries keying on the US dollar in various degrees, all but one belong to … the Commonwealth of Independent States. The paper shows that the extent to which each country's currency tracks the euro …
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Based on the experience of the Bank of Albania, the paper proposes a framework to estimate the interest rate lower bound in small, open, and euroized economies. The paper introduces a stylized monitoring tool to assess the unintended consequences of low policy rates. The paper is the first...
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Financial 'euroization'-or 'dollarization' outside of Central and Eastern Europe-is typically analyzed as a singular phenomenon that can be traced to a common set of factors. This paper argues that two types of euroization need to be distinguished, which have different causes, economic...
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financial stability risk due to euroization contribute to deeuroization inasmuch as they make banking intermediation in euro …
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GARCH model shows a positive impact of the introduction of the Euro on exchange rate volatility for the Polish zloty … (negative for the Czech koruna), related to its larger exposure to external shocks. For countries in transition to Euro …
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This paper examines opposing views on the euro''s challenge to the dollar as an international currency. One view … also show the euro has significantly overtaken the legacy currencies as a reserve currency. Generally, large economic size … alone is insufficient to challenge the network externalities supporting vehicle currencies, but scope exists for the euro to …
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This study provides evidence that episodes of internal stability of exchange rates among the 11 Euro countries during … Euro on January 1, 1999, should be expected to contribute to reduced volatility of world commodity prices, other things …
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against the euro relative to the U.S. dollar, while the opposite is true for the zloty, apparently related to earlier … inflation rates. By contrast, the currency options market shows enhanced information content of both currencies against the euro …
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The paper looks at the hypothesis that financial market liberalization can create a basis for more stable exchange rates, as deviations of exchange rates from equilibrium levels bring forth stabilizing flows of liquidity. This ""endogenous liquidity"" hypothesis suggests that opening financial...
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