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Casella, Alessandra - 2008

When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines the minimum power that each country requires in the common decision-making. lt;brgt;lt;bRgt;This paper studies the problem in the context of a monetary union - multiple...

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Shocking Aspects of European Monetary Unification

Bayoumi, Tamim - 2007

of adjustment to these shocks are then compared to the results from US regional data. We find that the underlying shocks … are significantly more idiosyncratic across EC countries than across US regions, which may indicate that the EC will find … neighbors, experience shocks of similar magnitude and cohesion as the US regions. EC countries also exhibit a slower response to …

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Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2021

Motivated by the need for more flexible decision-making mechanisms in the European Union, the paper proposes a simple but novel voting scheme for binary decisions taken by committees that meet regularly over time. At each meeting, committee members are allowed to store their vote for future use;...

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Benefits and Spillovers of Greater Competition in Europe : A Macroeconomic Assesment

Bayoumi, Tamim; Laxton, Douglas; Pesenti, Paolo A. - 2021

and the US. Second, it may improve macroeconomic management by increasing the responsiveness of wages and prices to market …

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Is Regionalism Simply a Diversion? Evidence from the Evolution of the EC and Efta

Bayoumi, Tamim; Eichengreen, Barry - 2021

This paper considers the impact on trade of preferential arrangements in Europe since the 1950s. Using a first difference version of the gravity model, we find that the EC and EFTA altered the pattern of international trade. We also find evidence of trade diversion in several cases, notably that...

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Market Mechanisms for Policy Decisions : Tools for the European Union

Casella, Alessandra - 2021

The thesis of this paper is that more transparent, rule-bound and subtle mechanisms for policy coordination will be needed to ensure the success of an enlarged European Union. A common policy is a public good with distributional implications. Economists have developed a large number of plausible...

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Redistribution Policy : A European Model

Casella, Alessandra - 2021

the periphery, but the exact shares vary across countries. We find that, in line with the EU view, the efficient regional …

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Large Countries, Small Countries, and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs

Casella, Alessandra - 2021

Are there systematic forces such that countries of different sizes participating in a free trade bloc gain differently from the entry of new members? If economies of scale imply that firms located in large countries enjoy lower costs, then the gains from enlarging the bloc will fall...

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Is There a Conflict between EC Enlargement and European Monetary Unification?

Bayoumi, Tamim; Eichengreen, Barry - 2022

. This leads us to distinguish an EC "core" (made up of Germany and its immediate neighbors) and an EC periphery (made up of …

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Tradable Deficit Permits : Efficient Implementation of the Stability Pacin the European Monetary Union

Casella, Alessandra - 2021

Borrowing from the experience of environmental markets, this paper proposes a system of tradable deficit permits as an efficient mechanism for implementing fiscal constraints in the European Monetary Union: having chosen an aggregate target for the Union and an initial distribution of permits,...

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