This study extends Bayoumi and Eichengreen's (1993) empirical methodology in order to give a reappraisal of the core-periphery view of the enlarged euro area. We show how to derive two useful indices from the "correlation box" formed by aggregate demand and supply shocks. One measures the...

Les analyses empiriques consacrées aux asymétries de chocs entre pays d’une union monétaire sont l’objet d’un bilan à l’occasion de l’entrée de la Slovénie dans la zone euro et de l’élargissement de l’Union européenne. Les résultats contrastés peuvent être expliqués...

This paper surveys the empirical studies about shock asymmetries in the context of the European Union enlargement, and the new membership of Slovenia to the Euro area. Overall the evidence appears rather mixed due to different approaches on three levels : the choice of the sample, the selected...