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This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of...
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How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare...
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estimates, the level of reforms and changes in their complementarity are found to be positively related to output growth …
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This paper estimates, using data from the United States and Euro Area, a two-country stochastic growth model in which …
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per-capita GDP growth since 1999 has been lower than what could have been predicted on the basis of historical experience …
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We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link … this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms …-paced and lower-quality growth Turkey has been experiencing since about 2007 …
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inflation and GDP growth might have been slightly higher if Sweden had been a member of EMU since the launch in 1999, but also … that GDP growth might have been more volatile. The evidence is therefore not conclusive about whether or not participation …
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When monetary and fiscal policy are conducted as in the euro area, output, inflation, and government bond default premia are indeterminate according to a standard general equilibrium model with sticky prices extended to include defaultable public debt. With sunspots, the model mimics the recent...
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At a time of historic challenges to the viability of the Eurozone, we assess the contribution of the EU and the Euro to …
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framework, there is thus no support for the prominent role given to money growth in the Eurosystem's monetary policy strategy …
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