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We document how supply-chain pressures, household inflation expectations, and firm pricing power interacted to induce the pandemic-era surge in consumer price inflation in the euro area. Initially, supply-chain pressures increased inflation through a cost-push channel and raised inflation...
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"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...
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This paper is a brief evaluation of the Eurosystem's monetary-policy regime after its first year, in particular of the extent to which it is similar to inflation targeting as practiced by an increasing number of central banks. I examine the Eurosystem's goals, framework for monetary-policy...
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This paper applies a full-information technique to test for the presence of contagion across the money markets of ERM member countries. We show that whenever it is possible to estimate a model for interdependence, a test for contagion based on a full information technique is more powerful. We...
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The premise of the paper is that the fervor for foreign exchange market intervention by U.S, and European monetary … should be. To explain why U.S. and European monetary authorities no longer believe that intervention is a tool that works, I …
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A growing body of new research has emphasized the macroeconomic consequences of transactional impediments in factor markets, and their role in the recurrent restructuring requirements of modern economies. We first review the function institutional arrangements play in facilitating transactions...
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We study the dynamics of price indices for major U.S. cities using panel econometric methods and find that relative …
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The creation of the euro and the European Central Bank is a remarkable and unprecedented event in economic and political history: creating a supranational central bank and leaving eleven countries without national currencies of their own. The experience of the first year confirms that one size...
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This paper considers the likely impact that European Union (EU) will have on the labor compact. It is argued that … integration will place on the labor compact. Evidence is presented suggesting that labor mobility among EU countries has not … increased after the elimination of remaining restrictions on intra-EU labor mobility in 1993. Moreover, immigration from non-EU …
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-rate volatility, much the way U.S. consumer prices already are. We show that this has profound consequences for both the volatility … and levels of macroeconomic aggregates in both the U.S. and Europe. We find that European welfare is enhanced, and, more … surprisingly U.S. shares in Europe's good fortune. Alternative assumptions about how pricing behavior will change lead to different …
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