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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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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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Aftershocks of Monetary Unification : Hysteresis with a Financial Twist
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2017
Once upon a time, in the 1990s, it was widely agreed that neither Europe nor the United States was an optimum currency area, although moderating this concern was the finding that it was possible to distinguish a regional core and periphery (Bayoumi and Eichengreen, 1993). Revisiting these...
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Participation in a Currency Union
Casella, Alessandra - 2008
When countries of different sizes participate in a cooperative agreement, the potential gain from deviation determines the minimum power that each country requires in the common decision-making. lt;brgt;lt;bRgt;This paper studies the problem in the context of a monetary union - multiple...
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Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2021
An optimum currency area is an economic unit composed of regions affected symmetrically by disturbances and between which labor and other factors of production flow freely. The symmetrical nature of disturbances and the high degree of factor mobility make it optimal to forsake nominal exchange...
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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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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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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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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 …
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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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