This paper surveys the empirical studies about shock asymmetries in the context of the European Union enlargement, and the new membership of Slovenia to the Euro area. Overall the evidence appears rather mixed due to different approaches on three levels : the choice of the sample, the selected...

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 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...