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In this paper we address the issue of how transmission uncertainty could affect the choice between a federal monetary policy based on national data and one on aggregated data.We find that the uncertainty about the transmission process increases the need to take into account information about...
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This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...
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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 examines how neutral the current EU decision-making procedures are to membership and how well they obey certain transparent general constitutional principles. The paper evaluates the performance of the procedures by strategic and classical power indices. The main emphasis in the...
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During the latter part of the 1990s the introduction of the euro, the dramatic increase in the supply of venture …
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This paper shows that countries with weak banking system and fiscal institutions, should benefit from the presence of foreign banks, which can constitute a commitment and transparency device. Foreign banks can also reduce the probability of self-fulfilling speculative attacks. A strong presence...
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in the pre-euro EU. The results suggest that capital mobility and exchange rate market efficiency in Central Europe are …This paper investigates capital market integration in the major Central European emerging economies by testing the … covered and uncovered interest parity conditions vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar and the DM/euro. The results for the Central …
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This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between … the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of monetary and fiscal policy rules is … constructed. It is analyzed how monetary and fiscal rules affect the adjustment dynamics in the individual euro-area countries …
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The paper uses quarterly GDP data for some 30 years up to and including 2001, to examine the identity and development of the European business cycle. Cycles are identified by using a band-pass filter version of the Hodrick-Prescott filter and affiliations are examined using clustering techniques...
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