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This paper discusses comovement between inflation and output in the euro area. The strength of the comovement may not be apparent at first sight, but is clear at business cycle frequencies. Our results suggest that at business cycle frequency, the output and core inflation comovement is high and...
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This paper proposes a new monetary policy framework for effectively navigating the path to adopting the euro. The proposed policy is based on relative inflation forecast targeting and incorporates an ancillary target of declining exchange rate risk, which is suggested as a key criterion for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611444
On 11-12 May 2011, SUERF and the Belgian Financial Forum, in association with the Brussels Finance Institute and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) organized the 29th SUERF Colloquium “New Paradigms in Money and Finance?” All the papers in the present SUERF Study are based on...
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The synchronized disinflation across Europe since end-2011 raises the question of whether non-euro area EU countries are affected by the undershooting of the euro area inflation target. To shed light on this issue, we estimate an open-economy, New Keynsian Phillips curve, in which we control for...
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Monetary and fiscal policies face huge challenges: the banking sector has collapsed; the economy is in the midst of a deep recession; the exchange rate has plunged; capital flows have been frozen; inflation is elevated; public debt has risen; source of revenues have disappeared; social needs have...
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This paper proposes a new monetary policy framework for effectively navigating the path to adopting the euro. The proposed policy is based on relative inflation forecast targeting and incorporates an ancillary target of declining exchange rate risk, which is suggested as a key criterion for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412757
converging to a common currency system, in particular, by the eurozone candidate countries. The analytical framework assumes an …, in this case, is the eurozone’s inflation forecast. The study advances a forwardlooking money growth model that might be … applied to aid monetary convergence to the eurozone. However, feasibility of adopting money growth rules depends on stable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008614812
converging to a common currency system, in particular, by the eurozone candidate countries. The analytical framework assumes an …, in this case, is the eurozone’s inflation forecast. The study advances a forward-looking money growth model that might be … applied to aid monetary convergence to the eurozone. However, feasibility of adopting money growth rules depends on stable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076831
This study examines the nature of interdependence, and return and volatility spillovers, for three Indian exchange rates: US dollar (USD), Euro and British Pound. We use the spillover index methodology of Diebold and Yilmaz (2009) to analyse precisely and independently the returns and volatility...
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The creation of EMU raises the question whether the common monetary policy has the same impact in all member countries. We analyse the convergence of interest rates in four major EMU countries from 1999 to 2007. We suggest to test the convergence of the interest rates with the full term...
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