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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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Eurowinners and Eurolosers : The Distribution of Seigniorage Wealth in Emu

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2010

The European Monetary Union (EMU) will involve socialization of the existing seigniorage wealth of the national central banks, because the Euro will have to be bought by these banks in exchange for assets which have been accumulated in the historical process of money creation. This socialization...

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The Ecb's Fiscal Policy

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2018

While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarizes the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention spiral resulting from its bid to manage the crisis. It also...

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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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The Minimum Inflation Rate for Euroland

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Reutter, Michael - 2021

As a result of the Balassa effect relative prices change rapidly between and within the euro countries. Thus it is impossible to find a common monetary policy that will result in price stability in all countries. Based on empirical estimates of the Balassa model, the paper calculates a minimum...

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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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Why Has the Euro Been Falling? An Investigation into the Determinants of the Exchange Rate

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Westermann, Frank - 2021

the dollar and the weakness of the euro reflect the prosperity of the US and the weakness of the European economy on both …

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Tax Harmonization and Tax Competition in Europe

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

Opening Europe's borders in 1993 makes the allocation of resources more vulnerable to differences in the national tax rates. The first part of the paper demonstrates that direct consumer purchases will imply distortions resulting from diverging VAT rates and it clarifies why the frequently cited...

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