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Conditional PPP and Real Exchange Rate Convergence in the Euro Area
Bergin, Paul R. - 2016
While economic theory highlights the usefulness of flexible exchange rates in promoting adjustment in international relative prices, flexible exchange rates also can be a source of destabilizing shocks. We find that when countries joining the euro currency union abandoned their national exchange...
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The European Union, the Euro, and Equity Market Integration
Bekaert, Geert - 2010
At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to … segmentation is significantly lower for EU versus non- EU members. Bilateral valuation differentials remain lower for EU members …, financial regulation, and interest rate differences. Importantly, we find that EU membership reduces equity market segmentation …
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The Euro and European Economic Conditions
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2011
The creation of the euro should now be recognized as an experiment that has led to the sovereign debt crisis in several countries, the fragile condition of major European banks, the high levels of unemployment, and the large trade deficits that now exist in most Eurozone countries. Although the...
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How Do Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interact in the European Monetary Union?
Canzoneri, Matthew B. - 2012
Formation of the Euro area raises new questions about the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy. Using a New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) model, we show that a common monetary policy, responding to area-wide aggregates, has asymmetric effects on countries within the union, depending on...
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-Emu Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
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Monetary Policy in Europe vs the Us : What Explains the Difference?
Uhlig, Harald - 2010
This paper compares monetary policy in the US and EMU during the last decade, employing an estimated hybrid New Keynesian cash-in-advance model, driven by five shocks. It appears that the difference between the two monetary policies between 1998 and 2006 is due to both surprises in productivity...
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Towards a Common European Monetary Union Risk Free Rate
Mayordomo, Sergio - 2009
A common European bond would yield a common European Monetary Union risk free rate. We present tentative estimates of this common risk free for the European Monetary Union countries from 2004 to 2009 using variables motivated by a theoretical portfolio selection model. First, we analyze the...
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The 2007 Subprime Market Crisis Through the Lens of European Central Bank Auctions for Short-Term Funds
Cassola, Nuno - 2009
In this paper we study European banks' demand for short-term funds (liquidity) during the summer 2007 subprime market crisis. We use bidding data from the European Central Bank's auctions for one-week loans, their main channel of monetary policy implementation. Through a model of bidding, we...
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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro
Bordo, Michael D. - 2008
This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and Us after 2001
Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2008
The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates more vigorously in the recent recession than the European Central Bank did. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to show that...
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