Les analyses empiriques consacrées aux asymétries de chocs entre pays d’une union monétaire sont l’objet d’un bilan à l’occasion de l’entrée de la Slovénie dans la zone euro et de l’élargissement de l’Union européenne. Les résultats contrastés peuvent être expliqués...

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...

This study extends Bayoumi and Eichengreen's (1993) empirical methodology in order to give a reappraisal of the core-periphery view of the enlarged euro area. We show how to derive two useful indices from the "correlation box" formed by aggregate demand and supply shocks. One measures the...

[eng] A Return to Average Rates in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism: 1987-1995 by Jean Sébastien Pentecôte and Thierry Roncalli . This paper studies the effect of the return to average daily rates for the European Exchange Rate Mechanism currencies and the dollar against the deutschemark...

[fre] Une approche bilatérale des réalignements au sein du Mécanisme de change européen . (mars 1979 - décembre 1992) par Jean-Sébastien Pentecôte et Marc- Alexandre Sénégas . Dans cet article, nous présentons un modèle de réalignement du cours de change dans une zone cible...

I extend the Bayoumi-Eichengreen (1993) approach by extracting new information from a scatter plot of correlation coefficients between shocks in order to better visualize how far a given country is from a monetary union. Indexes of distance and relative strength can be derived from either a...

This paper questions the impact of trade integration on business cycle synchronization in the EMU by distinguishing increase of existing trade flows (the intensive margin) and creation of new trade flows (the extensive margin). Using a DSGE model, we find that synchronization is weakened when...