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The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession countries, with a view to making policy recommendations regarding their accession to full European Monetary Union. We employ a dynamic OLS panel estimator to investigate the relative...
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This paper brings together the literature on determination of home bias in equity holdings and the portfolio balance model of exchange rates to consider whether the dollar might be affected by a change in transactions costs that alters international portfolio allocations. Our empirical findings...
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The size and economic relevance of Europe may imply a new role for the EURO in the international financial markets. But will the EURO compete with the $US and the Yen for a place in the basket of international currencies? Will that induce a bipolar or indeed tri-polar system, and with what...
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*The European Union will enter Stage Three of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. The development of euro …
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We examine the bilateral composition of international bond portfolios for the euro area and the individual EMU member … countries. We find considerable support for “euro area bias”: EMU member countries disproportionately invest in one another … linkages in explaining asymmetries across EMU member countries in terms of their outward and inward bond investments vis …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009768851
governance in emu and examines further some fundamental questions about emu’s sustainability looking at emu’s performance for far … functioning emu once they will have adopted a more sustainable growth model. …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958722
This paper derives equilibrium real exchange rates for the EU member countries that joined in 2004 and in 2007. Our analysis is based on the natural real exchange rate approach and uses data for the period 1980-2007. We employ a two-step estimation strategy to deal with the limited availability...
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