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Recent debate has focused on the introduction of a central stabilisation capacity as a completing element of the Economic and Monetary Union. Its main objective would be to contribute cushioning country-specific economic shocks, especially when national fiscal stabilisers are run down. There are...
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This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...
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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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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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firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered … the role of accessibility while keeping `revealed competitiveness' as given, we are able to evaluate the impacts of EMU … and enlargement on the competitiveness of European firms. We find that EMU positively affects the competitiveness of firms …
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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 EMU accession countries are obliged to fulfill the Maastrich convergence criteria prior to entering the EMU. This …
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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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gains from fiscal policy cooperation between the new EU members and the euro area (EMU). Fiscal cooperation is defined in … between cooperating and not cooperating, but the new EU members still prefer not to cooperate with EMU in terms of fiscal …
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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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