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We look at a country that has chosen to fix its exchange rate. The country can choose to tie its currency to alternative countries. The question is which one it will be optimal to choose. Three factors are considered: Trade share, real exchange rate variation and real shocks. A large trade share...
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This article provides an assessment of labour market adjustments occurring in Estonia during the global crisis. As part … of the so-called internal devaluation, the strategy followed was very successful in shrinking the unit labour costs, thus … was used, at least in the worst time of the financial crisis: massive lay-offs, reduced working time and wage cuts. At mid …
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Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …
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The objective of this paper is analyse the determinants of the Argentine crisis of 2001-2002. In particular we analyse … the role of macroeconomic policies during the crisis. The crisis coincided with a sudden stop of capital flows.We use a … VAR model to better understand the shocks and mechanisms by which the crisis propagated throughout the economy. We find …
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This article provides an assessment of labour market adjustments occurring in Estonia during the global crisis. As part … of the so-called internal devaluation, the strategy followed was very successful in shrinking the unit labour costs, thus … was used, at least in the worst time of the financial crisis: massive lay-offs, reduced working time and wage cuts. At mid …
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This article provides an assessment of labour market adjustments occurring in Estonia during the global crisis. As part … of the so-called internal devaluation, the strategy followed was very successful in shrinking the unit labour costs, thus … was used, at least in the worst time of the financial crisis: massive lay-offs, reduced working time and wage cuts. At mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756408
The coincidence of banking and currency crises associated with the Asian financial crisis has drawn renewed attention … joint ("twin") occurrence of bank and currency crises and assess the extent to which each type of crisis provides …
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crisis in 1997, persistence in our model arises from inability of the domestic financial institutions to intermediate …
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This paper investigates a monetary model of exchange rate determination: an extension of the Krugman basic target zone model with price inertia applied to the French Franc. We consider a novel theoretical argument, the Threshold Cointegration, such that the long-run relationship between the...
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exchange rate and contagion effects have affected the probability of a currenycy crisis. Second, empirical shadow floating … crisis. …
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