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Currency Unions
Alesina, Alberto F.; Barro, Robert J. - 2021
What is the optimal number of currencies in the world? Common currencies affect trading costs and, thereby, the amounts of trade, output, and consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, the adoption of another country's currency trades off the benefits of commitment to price stability...
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Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area
Ireland, Peter N. - 2011
This paper estimates, using data from the United States and Euro Area, a two-country stochastic growth model in which both neutral and investment-specific technology shocks are nonstationary but cointegrated across economies. The results point to large and persistent swings in productivity, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131508
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135396
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Eurosystem Monetary Targeting : Lessons from U.S. Data
Rudebusch, Glenn D. - 2010
Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137167
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The Euro and European Economic Conditions
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2011
exist in most Eurozone countries. Although the European Central Bank managed the euro in a way that achieved a low rate of … Greek departure from the Eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118129
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Risk Sharing Through Capital Gains
Balli, Faruk - 2011
We estimate channels of international risk sharing between European Monetary Union (EMU), European Union, and other OECD countries 1992-2007. We focus on risk sharing through savings, factor income flows, and capital gains. Risk sharing through factor income and capital gains was close to zero...
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Sovereign CDS and Bond Pricing Dynamics in the Euro-Area
Palladini, Giorgia - 2011
This analysis tests the price discovery relationship between sovereign CDS premia and bond yield spreads on the same reference entity. The theoretical no-arbitrage relationship between the two credit spreads is confronted with daily data from six Euro-area countries over the period 2004-2011. As...
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5%...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100660
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A Tale of Politically-Failing Single-Currency Area
Razin, Assaf - 2012
and recovery patterns for key EU members like Germany and France, within the Eurozone, were similar. However, after the … bubble burst and the crisis began unfolding it became clear that the Eurozone plight differed from America's in one … fundamental respect. There was no exact counterpart of Eurozone GIIPS (Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) in the United …
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