This work aims to assess whether the hypothesis of endogenous synchronisation of shocks is verified in the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). A state-space model, which yields time-varying coefficients, is estimated with structural demand and supply shocks to several European economies...

Turmoil in euro area once more forces EU authorities to rethink future of further monetary integration. One of the most commonly used criterions for successful monetary in contemporary research is business cycle synchronization (BCS). Though BCS has been vastly described at country level, not as...

Mundell's optimal currency area model has been misconstrued, being at base an argument against multiple currencies as Mundell himself stated in that paper and frequently since. This paper shows two things. First use of this model has generated beggar-thy-neighbour advice concerning exchange rate...