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How fused is the euro area core? : an evaluation of growth cycle co-movement and synchronization using wavelet analysis

Crowley, Patrick M.; Mayes, David G. - In: Journal of business cycle measurement and analysis : a … 4 (2008) 1, pp. 63-95

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Euroland : recovery is under way

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Kamps, Christophe; Scheide, Joachim - 2002

The economy in the euro area has turned around. While GDP stagnated during the second half of 2001, there are more and more signs that output will increase considerably in the first half of this year. All in all, the slowdown has not been very pronounced. One indication for this is that in 2001,...

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Euroland : recovery will slowly gain momentum

Gern, Klaus-Jürgen; Kamps, Christophe; Meier, … - 2003

Economic activity in the euro area has weakened since last summer. In the second half of 2002, real GDP increased at an annualized rate of around 1 percent only. Economy-wide capacity utilization has further declined and the situation on labor markets has worsened. The increase in consumer...

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Animal spirits and the business cycle : empirical evidence from moment matching

Jang, Tae-Seok; Sacht, Stephen - In: Metroeconomica : international review of economics 67 (2016) 1, pp. 76-113

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Measures of the output gap in the Euro-zone : an empirical assessment of selected methods

Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg - 2001

die Euro-Zone. Obwohl die Methoden einige wichtige gemeinsame Eigenschaften aufweisen, zeigen sie auch erhebliche …The paper discusses some widely used methods for estimating output gaps based on aggregated data for the eurozone … methods commonly used have only limited information content for inflation forecasting in the euro-zone. Conclusions for …

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Europe's euro and competitiveness crises

Salvatore, Dominick - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 37 (2015) 3, pp. 445-449

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Cross-border banking and business cycles in asymmetric currency unions

Dräger, Lena; Proaño Acosta, Christian - 2015

Against the background of the emergence of macroeconomic imbalances within the European Monetary Union (EMU), we investigate in this paper the macroeconomic consequences of cross-border banking in monetary unions such as the euro area. For this purpose, we incorporate in an otherwise standard...

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The tale of two great crises

Fratianni, Michele; Giri, Federico - 2015

The great depression of 1929 and the great financial crisis of 2008 have been the two big events of the last 75 years. Not only have they produced serious economic consequences but they also changed our view of economics and policymaking. The aim of this work is to compare these two great crises...

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Some thoughts on macroeconomic fluctuations and the timing of labor market reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...

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The regime-switching volatility of euro area business cycles

Lhuissier, Stéphane - 2015

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