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The debt crisis of the eurozone revealed a structural problem of the single market rooted in the external imbalance … problem of indebted member states. The assumption of this paper is that the current account imbalances within the eurozone are … based on an intra-eurozone competitiveness disparity originated in the single currency and the heterogeneity of member state …
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This paper investigates determinants of convergence in GDP per capita in the euro area and the EU between 1995 and 2021. It finds that the COVID-19 crisis temporarily slowed convergence but the estimated negative impact is significantly smaller than during the global financial crisis. Diverging...
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This paper analyses the adjustment mechanism in the euro area prior to the crisis. Results show that the real exchange rate adjusted to redress cyclical divergences and that after monetary unification, real exchange rate dynamics became less reactive to country-specific shocks but also less...
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The eurozone crisis has revealed certain shortcomings of the EMU, such as its vulnerability to asymmetric shocks and …
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There are many reasons to reform the Stability and Growth Pact, but that reform is no panacea. This is because the euro area periphery has increasingly entered a debt conundrum.
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