European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component …. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5% for Poland and 30% for …

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … policy autonomy in several areas, such as monetary policy and fiscal policy. The paper shows that EMU has helped reduce the …

particularly interesting testing ground for the benefits of the EMU. The average growth rates were rather similar before the Great … fared somewhat better than Finland in the EMU period. We assess the effects of the regime choice by simulating the behaviour … joined the EMU in 1999. The simulation exercise suggests that the independent monetary regime reduced the impact of the …

A withdrawal of a member state from the EMU due to market pressure has been a rather popular topic in the public debate … the report, the effects of the potential withdrawal of Greece, one of the weakest economies in the EMU, is studied first …

Overall, the ECB managed monetary policy quite satisfactory in the first phase of EMU. Nevertheless, this paper asks …

period to the Economic andMonetary Union (EMU). Using several approaches suggested in the literatureon fiscal adjustments and … their macroeconomic effects and in the literatureon EMU, we analyze the effects of the fiscal adjustments during this … periodon private consumption. Thereby, we also take the specific context of thetransition towards EMU explicitly into …

No one seems to be neutral about the effects of EMU on the German economy. Roughly speaking, there are two camps: those … stability. From a broader macroeconomic perspective, however, it is clear that EMU is unlikely to cause directly any meaningful …

We study the evolution of the response of fiscal policy to monetary policy shocks in the EMU in the light of two … important events: the signing of the Maastricht treaty in 1992 and the introduction of the EMU in 1999. Based on impulse … policy acted as complements after the introduction of the EMU. These results holds for a set of 11 non-EMU countries as well …