This report considers four short-term, alternative scenarios for the eurozone and analyses their possible implications for global economic trends and the gold market. Overall, the main findings suggest that in the near future, motives other than inflation hedging will be the main drivers of gold...

This report considers four short-term, alternative scenarios for the eurozone and analyses their possible implications for global economic trends and the gold market. Overall, the main findings suggest that in the near future, motives other than inflation hedging will be the main drivers of gold...

This paper explores the conflict of real and monetary convergence during the EMU run-up of the future Central and Eastern European (CEE) EU member states. Based on a Balassa-Samuelson model of productivity driven inflation, it compares the policy options which might make the compliance possible,...

En este trabajo se comparan dos metodologías macroeconómicas punteras pero a la vez muy distintas: el modelo DSGE con expectativas racionales y el modelo de comportamiento con racionalidad limitada. Procedemos a ampliar los dos para incluir fricciones financieras por el lado de la oferta...