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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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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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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764715
This paper examines a continuous-time two country dynamic monetary equilibrium in which countries with possibly heterogeneous tastes and endowments hold their own money for the purpose of transaction services formulated via money in the utility function. Given a price system, no-arbitrage...
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multiple currencies to deal with uncertainty in their optimal consumption bundles. We argue that this equilibrium is Pareto …
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After a quarter of a century of floating among the major currencies, exchange rate policy is still source of vexation … market interventionl from time to time? Or should it fis its currency to some other currency or currencies, and if so to …
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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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