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Shocks and labour cost adjustment : evidence from a survey of European firms

Mathä, Thomas; Millard, Stephen Patrick; Rõõm, Tairi; … - 2019

and hours) in response to shocks. We develop a theoretical model to understand how firms choose between different ways to … the shock (positive or negative), its size and persistence. In 2010-13, firms responding to negative shocks were most … response to positive shocks in 2010-13, firms were more likely to increase wages, followed by increases in employment and then …

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Comparing economic dynamics in the EU and CEE accession countries

Süppel, Ralph - 2003

shocks remain a risk. …

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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries

Zaghini, Andrea - 2003

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...

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Current accounts dynamics in OECD and EU acceding countries

Bussière, Matthieu; Fratzscher, Marcel; Müller, Gernot J. - 2004

The paper extends the standard intertemporal model of the current account to include two important stylised facts: (1) the persistence of current account positions and (2) the relevance of the fiscal balance. Specifically, the paper derives a closed form solution for consumption in the presence...

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Deeper, wider and more competitive? : monetary integration, Eastern enlargement and competitiveness in the European Union

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. (contributor); … - 2007

What determines a country's ability to compete in international markets? What fosters the global competitiveness of its firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered domestic firms' competitiveness in local and global...

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Real convergence in Central and Eastern European EU Member States : which role for exchange rate volatility?

Arratibel, Olga (contributor); Furceri, Davide (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes the relation between exchange rate volatility and several macroeconomic variables, namely real per capita output growth, the credit cycle, the stock of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and the current account balance, in the Central and Eastern European EU Member...

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The Maastricht convergence criteria and optimal monetary policy for the EMU accession Countries

Lipińska, Anna (contributor) - 2008

convergence criteria modify optimal monetary policy in an economy facing domestic and external shocks? First, we derive the micro …The EMU accession countries are obliged to fulfill the Maastrich convergence criteria prior to entering the EMU. This …

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Acquisition versus greenfield : the impact of the mode of foreign bank entry on information and bank lending rates

Claeys, Sophie (contributor); Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2006

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study how different entry modes affect the interest rate for loans in a model in which domestic banks possess private information about their incumbent clients but foreign banks have...

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Fiscal and monetary policy in the enlarged European Union (forthcoming)

Pogorelec, Sabina (contributor) - 2006

I build a quantitative two-country DSGE model of the European Union (EU) and investigate whether there are welfare gains from fiscal policy cooperation between the new EU members and the euro area (EMU). Fiscal cooperation is defined in terms of joint maximization of the weighted average of...

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Long-run money demand in the new EU Member States with exchange rate effects

Dreger, Christian (contributor); … - 2006

Generally speaking, money demand models represent a natural benchmark against which monetary developments can be assessed. In particular, the existence of a well-specified and stable relationship between money and prices can be perceived as a prerequisite for the use of monetary aggregates in...

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