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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union
Baas, Timo - 2018
For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows that internal current account imbalances inside a currency...
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External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration : Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2021
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315999
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
Abbritti, Mirko - 2012
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107467
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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-Term Solution of the Euro Crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016262
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Interest Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in Domestic Investment : Evidence for the Euro Area
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2019
The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank's effectiveness in a low interest rate environment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863789
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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession : Evidence from Micro Data
Verdugo, Gregory - 2015
We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012041
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond : First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo - 2010
estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …
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Enlarging the EMU to the East : What Effects on Trade?
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Spies, Julia - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325027
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The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model
Christoffel, Kai Philipp; Kuester, Keith; Linzert, Tobias - 2021
Real wages are a key determinant of marginal costs. The latter themselves are a driving force of inflation. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process. We model search and matching frictions in the labour market in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian closed economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318057
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael - 2013
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074205