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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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The Euro and the Geography of International Debt Flows

Hale, Galina - 2014

Greater financial integration between core and peripheral EMU members not only had an effect on both sets of countries but also spilled over beyond the euro area. Lower interest rates allowed peripheral countries to run bigger deficits, which inflated their economies by allowing credit booms....

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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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Emu : Ready, or Not?

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2021

In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for Emu

Obstfeld, Maurice; Peri, Giovanni - 2021

pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …'s) model of regional response differs from that of the US. Changes in relative regional real exchange rates are general small …

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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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A Strategy for Launching the Euro

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2022

conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty …

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