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Slovakia. Participation in the EMU (the Eurozone) will be the final step on the way of integration to the EU. The aim of this … of optimal currency area to describe positives and negatives of a membership in the EMU and potential time-schedule for … economy to EU-15 or EMU. Changes in the monetary policy of the National Bank of Slovakia. Benefits and costs of the monetary …
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Integration into the European Monetary Union (EMU) and adoption of Euro became a specific objective for Eastern …
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The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a monetary policy reaction function and taking account of exchange rate targeting practices. The object of the analysis is to examine the idea that an independent money and exchange...
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The theory of optimal currency areas, due to Mundell and McKinnon, has enjoyed a revival of interest in the wake of European discussions of monetary union. The basic theme of this old literature is that there are potential gains for stabilization policy in an independent exchange rate and money...
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Since the establishment in 1979 of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS a number of countries, after entry, have experienced a substantial and persistent rise in their real exchange rate (the ratio of domestic to foreign prices). This paper explains this phenomenon in terms of a `peso problem'...
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-run nominal rigidity in wages and prices, one would expect that under European Monetary Union (EMU) the loss of the exchange rate … strategically responsive monetary policy, floating is superior to EMU for all countries, and that even if the rest of the Community … proceeds with EMU, the UK is better off outside it. This latter conclusion is reinforced in the exercise on the more refined UK …
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The paper applies fuzzy clustering techniques to the member countries of the European Union in order to arrive at an identification of preferred monetary union groupings. The statistical criteria employed are those suggested, alternatively, by the traditional Optimal Currency Area theory or the...
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(EMU). In this paper, we discuss the true reasons of this situation with reference to four issues which the debate remains … framework of the EMU still reveals many weaknesses, which would underpin the current unstable situation. In this context, we …
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In this paper, we analyze coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within the EMU by focusing, in a dynamic …
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game approach of the endogenous coalition formation literature. The specific policy recommendations in the EMU context …
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