La traslación del tipo de cambio (ERPT, por sus siglas en inglés) a los precios de importación y consumo en la Unión Europea es, en términos agregados, menor que en los años 90 y tiene un comportamiento no lineal. Estimaciones agregadas de una traslación pequeña a los precios al consumo...

AbstractThe resilience of trade balances of the major industrialised economies such as the US andJapan to changes in their exchange rates following the switch from fixed to floating exchangerate regimes, triggered interest in the exchange rate pass-through relationship. Because of theimportance...

My dissertation studies various questions falling into the broad context ofmacroeconomics and international economics. The questions have macroeconomiccomponents because they are concerned with the behavior of aggregates. Specifically,the second and third chapters of my dissertation study the...

This paper surveys recent advances in empirical studies of the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM), with special attention to Central and Eastern Europe. In particular, while laying out the functioning of the separate channels in the MTM, it explores possible interrelations between different...

This thesis investigates the role of exchange rate in a small open economy policy framework. Focusing the analysis on the crisis-hit East-Asian countries, the main objective of this thesis is to investigate the necessity of the monetary authority to concern about the exchange rate stability by...

In this paper we argue that, for a group of converging economies of the European Union, participation in the euro area has been associated with easier access to financing by domestic economic agents. Easier access to financing was a significant impulse leading to a sharp increase in households'...

Using a sample of 1154 European firms from 11 countries, we show that firm-levelexchange exposure for Eurozone and non-Eurozone European firms has increased sincethe introduction of the euro, but this rise was smaller for Eurozone than non-Eurozonefirms. The increase in firm-specific exposure...

In this paper, we provide evidence on the nature and the relative importance of domestic and foreign shocks in Slovak economy based on block-restriction vector autoregression model in 1999-2007. We document well-functioning monetary transmission mechanism in Slovakia. Subject to various...

The replacement of a multi-currency system by a single currency on the basis of the European Economic and Monetary Unit is the stage in the same integration and convergence process; monetary policy that recently was the matter of each state was handed over to the European Central Bank. A...

La aparición de diferenciales soberanos dentro de la Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM) responde a que los mercados incorporan en el precio de la deuda pública los fundamentales heterogéneos de los países, pero también el riesgo de redenominación, dada la naturaleza incompleta de la UEM....