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The paper discusses the risks and challenges faced by the new members on the road to the euro and the strategies for and timing of euro adoption. We investigate the real-nominal convergence nexus from the perspective of euro area entry. We argue that the initial level of economic development as...
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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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Mit ihrem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union (EU) verpflichten sich die EU-Beitrittskandidaten, an der Europäischen Währungsunion teilzunehmen und den Euro einzuführen, sobald sie die Konvergenzkriterien erfüllen. Bereits als EU-Mitglieder mit eigener Währung müssen sie ihre...
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The theme of this contribution is how Europe will evolve over the next decade. The key message is that over this decade Europe will be busy digesting the 12 members that joined in 2004 and 2007. Digesting in the context means that the new members will only gradually be incorporated and...
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Dem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union (EU), den zahlreiche Länder anstreben, wird mit einiger Verzögerung die Einführung des Euro folgen. Schon jetzt stellen sich daher zwei grundsätzliche Fragen: Erstens, ist die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) auch dann mit den derzeit gegebenen...
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The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors behind the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries with the euro area in the past ten years and to gauge the potential for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model estimated with a large sample...
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I build a quantitative two-country DSGE model of the European Union (EU) and investigate whether there are welfare gains from fiscal policy cooperation between the new EU members and the euro area (EMU). Fiscal cooperation is defined in terms of joint maximization of the weighted average of...
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What determines a country's ability to compete in international markets? What fosters the global competitiveness of its firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered domestic firms' competitiveness in local and global...
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Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
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Es ist derzeit noch offen, wann die größeren mittel- und osteuropäischen Mitgliedsländer der Europäischen Union vollständig der Europäischen Währungsunion beitreten werden. Um die Beitrittsfähigkeit zu bestimmen, sollten in Ergänzung zu den gebräuchlichen nominalen Konvergenzkriterien...
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