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, and Belgium and Malta being the largest losers. Governments are net winners of inflation, while the household (HH) sector … Spain turn out to be net winners of inflation. Considerable heterogeneity exists also within the HH sector: relatively young … middle class HHs are net winners of inflation, while older and richer HHs are losers. As a result, wealth inequality for the …
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Using a modified version of the model presented by Belke and Gros (2007), we analyze the stability of adjustment in a currency union. Using econometric estimates for parameter values we check the stability conditions for the 11 original EMU countries and Greece. We found significant instability...
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows in competitiveness in a set of seven euroarea member countries (Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic) in the context of real convergence and crisis. A specific focus is on Greece. The paper extends the seminal...
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, and Belgium and Malta being the largest losers. Governments are net winners of inflation, while the household (HH) sector … Spain turn out to be net winners of inflation. Considerable heterogeneity exists also within the HH sector: relatively young … middle class HHs are net winners of inflation, while older and richer HHs are losers. As a result, wealth inequality for the …
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Competitiveness adjustment in struggling southern euro-area members requires persistently lower inflation than in major … trading partners, but low inflation worsens public debt sustainability. When average euro-area inflation undershoots the two …, inflation and budget surplus assumptions can easily result in a runaway debt trajectory. The case for a greater than five …
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losses for the ECB and try to assess inflation dangers stemming from the 3Y LTROs. In the same section, we also look at the …
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows in competitiveness in a set of seven euro-area member countries (Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and the Slovak Republic) in the context of real convergence and crisis. A specific focus is on Greece. The paper extends the seminal...
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Time-varying exchange rate pass-through effects to domestic prices under fixed euro exchange rate perspective represent one of the most challenging implications of the common currency. The problem is even more crucial when examining crisis related redistributive effects associated with relative...
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