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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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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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Fiscal Federalism and Optimum Currency Areas : Evidence for Europe from the United States
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2022
The main goal of this paper is to estimate to what extent the federal government of the United States insures member states against regional income shocks. We find that a one dollar reduction in a region's per capita personal income triggers a decrease in federal taxes of about 34 cents and an...
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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 …
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Coordination in the European Union
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2013
This paper examines the sources of current conflict within the EU and the EMU. The topics discussed include the recent ECB policy of bond buying (the OMT policy), the attempts to advance the "European Project" of stronger political union (the fiscal compact, the banking union, and the proposals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089018
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Subsidiarity and the European Union
Inman, Robert P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - 2021
The European Union is at a crossroads. At issue will be each of the three decisions which define a federal constitution: the number of participating governments, the assignment of policy responsibilities to the new EMU, and the representation of local interests in, and the decision-making rules...
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Aftershocks of Monetary Unification : Hysteresis with a Financial Twist
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2017
currency area than the Euro Area. More intriguingly, the Euro Area shows striking changes in correlations and responses which … demand shocks to reinforce each other. An implication is that if the Euro Area wishes to avoid financial booms and busts it …
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The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021
A country's suitability for entry into a currency union depends on a number of economic conditions. These include, inter alia, the intensity of trade with other potential members of the currency union, and the extent to which domestic business cycles are correlated with those of the other...
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Optimal Currency Area : A 20th Century Idea for the 21st Century?
Aizenman, Joshua - 2016
We take stock of the history of the European Monetary Union and pegged exchange-rate regimes in recent decades. The post-Bretton Woods greater financial integration and under-regulated financial intermediation have increased the cost of sustaining a currency area and other forms of fixed...
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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 … between member countries whether or not members have also adopted the Euro. The Euro adoption as well as the anticipation of … the Euro adoption has minimal effects on market integration …
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