Enders, Zeno; Jung, Philip; Müller, Gernot J. - 2009
In this paper we analyze European business cycles before and under EMU. Across the two periods we ?nd 1) a signi … able to replicate key features of the data prior to and under EMU.We ?nd that the euro has a strong bearing on the … transmission mechanism as cross-country spillovers increase substantially under EMU. As a result, foreign shocks become more and …