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...

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...

This paper compares relative unit labour cost developments in the countries of the euro-area since the beginning of the European Monetary Union (EMU) both with historical developments and with intra-regional unit labour cost developments in the United States of America and Germany. To this end,...

Main description: Seit geraumer Zeit gibt es eine lebhafte Diskussion über die Wirksamkeit von Strukturanpassungs- und Stabilisierungsprogrammen des Internationalen Währungsfonds in Entwicklungsländern. Die dabei vertretene Position des "Washington Consensus" setzt auf Stabilisierung,...