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This paper shows that currency arrangements impact on credit available through default incentives. To this end we build … a symmetric two-country model with money and imperfect credit market integration. With the Euro Area context in mind, we … capture differences in credit market integration by variations in the cost for banks to grant credit for cross …
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This paper shows that currency arrangements impact on credit available through default incentives. To this end we build … a symmetric two-country model with money and imperfect credit market integration. With the Euro Area context in mind, we … capture differences in credit market integration by variations in the cost for banks to grant credit for cross …
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Since the 1970s the characteristics of international business cycles have changed and deeper economic integration has modified the features of cross-country comovement. We formally test for correlation shifts in measures of real economic activity and economic/financial integration. In Europe we...
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The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...
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The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499619
The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506932
This paper analyses the monetary consequences of the Latin-American trade integration process. We consider a sample of five countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay - spanning the period 1991-2007. The main question raised pertains to the feasibility of a monetary union between...
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