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In the years leading to EMU, the Portuguese economy experienced robust growth, lower inflation and reduced budget deficits, allowing the country to meet the Maastricht criteria and participate in EMU. A few years after the adoption of the euro, this scenario changed and the apparent success...
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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 …
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policy choice that is believed to facilitate both the economic transition and the monetary convergence to the eurozone … exchange rate fluctuations, the eurozone inflation impulses, and output changes. The analysis implies that the monetary …
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risk premiums in the EU accession countries as they undergo monetary convergence to the eurozone. It proposes a monetary …
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This paper, after reviewing briefly the early steps of European monetary integration and key elements of the EMU project as reflected in the Treaty of Maastricht, analyses the monetary integration strategy and convergence experience of member states, in particular that of Greece, in the 1990s...
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This paper examines the role of ERM II in the convergence effort of the new Member States, against the background of past convergence experience and in the light of EU rules for economic and monetary policy. Key aspects of the mechanism are analysed, including the appropriate timing and duration...
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This paper evaluates the conduct of monetary policy in Hungary using standard Taylor rules as well as extended rules that incorporate real exchange rate effects. Moreover, we explicitly consider the impact of future euro area entry by estimating instrument rules that permit an influence from...
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the eurozone. …
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In the present paper fundamental changes in monetary policy strategy, especially in leading industrialized countries, from concentrating on development of the quantity of money to focusing strictly on developments of interest rates and interest rate levels is analysed in the case of the European...
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