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features, such as the degree of centralization of wage bargaining, labour unions' inflation aversion and the degree of … monetary policy usually affects both inflation and unemployment, even when all structural parameters of the economy and of …
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The paper documents how the code of conduct implied by membership of the escudo in the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the Europan Monetary System (ERM) allowed Portugal to qualify for Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), ultimately moving the currency into the euro. This unwritten code of conduct...
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Monetary textbooks customarily define money by its three properties as a means of transaction, as a unit of account and as a store of value. It is vast preponderance of domestic exchanges, a single unit-the legal tender serves to fullfill the first two functions: the prices are quoted in units...
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crises. We combine a model of optimal debt repudiation, through inflation-devaluation, with a stochastic balance of payments …
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with the same currency. Countries adopting full dollarization of its economy profit immensely as low inflation and low …
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authorities. However, more opacity could imply higher inflation and unemployment when the union is large enough and induce higher … inflation and output-gap variability. An enlargement of the union incites national governments to increase tax rate, and weakens … quite conservative. It induces an increase in the level of inflation and unemployment, and could increase inflation and …
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The paper studies the determinants of unemployment in a two-countrymodel, where real wages are the outcome of the strategic interaction between various institutional players (firms, unions, central banks). We show that: (i) the results derived in the recent literature on this topic are not...
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As shown in Sinn and Wollmershäuser (2012a), during the European balance-of-payments crisis, inter-governmental credit and Target credit granted by core-country central banks have replaced private international capital flows in financing the crisis countries' current account deficits, and even...
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