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Measuring the Business Cycle Similarity and Convergence Trends in the CEECs Towards the Eurozone with Respect to some Unclear Methodological Aspects

Rozmahel, Petr - 2009

discussion on the process of joining the Eurozone by the Czech Republic and other candidate countries. The paper provides an …. Measures of business cycle similarity are ordinarily used to evaluate preparedness of candidate countries to join the Eurozone …. The results indicate continuing convergence of the business cycle similarity between the candidate and Eurozone member …

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Endogeneities of optimum currency areas: what brings countries sharing a single currency closer together?

De Grauwe, Paul; Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - 2005

This paper brings together several strands of the literature on the endogenous effects of monetary integration: i.e., whether sharing a single currency may set in motion forces bringing countries closer together. The start of EMU has spurred a new interest in this debate. Four areas are...

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What effects is EMU having on the euro area and its member countries? An overview

Mongelli, Francesco Paolo; Vega, Juan Luis - 2006

This paper addresses the effects of the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since the introduction of the euro -- on economic and financial structures, institutions and performance. What type of changes is the euro fostering? What forces is it setting in motion that were not there before?...

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Economic and monetary integration of the new Member States - helping to chart the route

Angeloni, Ignazio; Flad, Michael; Mongelli, Francesco Paolo - 2005

This paper examines diverse aspects of the monetary integration of the ten new Member States (NMS) which joined the EU on 1 May 2004 into the euro area. Most NMS have undergone a rapid and deep transformation in all areas with considerable progress in their processes of reform and convergence,...

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The Endogeneity of the Optimum Currency Area Criteria, Intraindustry Trade, and EMU Enlargement

Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2001

This paper tests the endogeneity hypothesis of OCA criteria (Frankel and Rose, 1998) in a cross-section of OECD countries between 1990 and 1999. It is shown that intraindustry trade actually causes the convergence of business cycles, while there is no direct relation between business cycles and...

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The performance and robustness of interest-rate rules in models of the euro area

Adalid, Ramón; Coenen, Günter; McAdam, Peter; … - 2005

In this paper, we examine the performance and robustness of optimised interest-rate rules in four models of the euro area which differ considerably in terms of size, degree of aggregation, relevance of forward-looking behavioural elements and adherence to micro-foundations. Our findings are...

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Does government spending crowd in private consumption? Theory and empirical evidence for the euro area

Coenen, Günter; Straub, Roland - 2005

In this paper, we revisit the effects of government spending shocks on private consumption within an estimated New-Keynesian DSGE model of the euro area featuring non-Ricardian households. Employing Bayesian inference methods, we show that the presence of non-Ricardian households is in general...

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Non-linear dynamics in the euro area demand for M1

Calza, Alessandro; Zaghini, Andrea - 2006

This paper investigates possible non-linearities in the dynamics of the euro area demand for the narrow aggregate M1. A long-run money demand relationship is firstly estimated over a sample period covering the last three decades. While the parameters of the relationship are jointly stable, there...

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Growth accounting for the euro area: a structural approach

Proietti, Tommaso; Musso, Alberto - 2007

This paper is concerned with the estimation of euro area potential output growth and its decomposition according to the sources of growth. The growth accounting exercise is based on a multivariate structural time series model which combines the decomposition of total output according to the...

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The usefulness of infra-annual government cash budgetary data for fiscal forecasting in the euro area

Onorante, Luca; Pedregal, Diego J.; Pérez, Javier J.; … - 2008

Short-term fiscal indicators based on public accounts data are often used by European policy makers. They represent one of the main sources of publicly available intra-annual fiscal information. Nevertheless, these indicators have received limited attention from the academic literature analysing...

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