This paper shows that financial market incompleteness leads to welfare gains in a monetary union where nominal rigidities and asymmetric shocks do exist. Incomplete financial markets reduce the volatility of the national inflation rates. Welfare gains associated with this decrease are higher...

This paper analyses the consequences of the existence of financial frictions and of a banking system on business cycles, in a new Keynesian macroeconomics model. We contrast our conclusions with those obtained in two other existing frameworks (namely the canonical nns model of Woodford, [2003]...

This paper shows that an increase in trade integration has mixed effects on business cycle synchronization. In a two country dsge model with flexible prices we show that an increase in the extensive margin of trade reduces the coupling of business cycles with regard to a trade increase affecting...

In this article, a unified framework is built with the aim at underlying the main features of the first two generations of currency crisis models. It lies in the new open-economy literature. The purpose is to give a new way of understanding the relationship between the current account...

This paper assesses the joint behavior of the nominal interest rate and the inflation in a sticky prices model with exogenous money growth rule. Using a limited information estimation method, we identify and estimate the relation between the nominal interest rate and the expected inflation...