This paper investigates the contribution of private and public channels for consumption risk sharing in the EMU over … estimating how risk sharing has evolved since the start of the EMU, and in particular during the recent crisis. Our results … suggest that, whereas in the early years of the EMU only about 40% of output shocks were smoothed, in the aftermath of the …

European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component …. Using a simulation-based technique, we find that estimates of FDI effects of EMU range between 18.5% for Poland and 30% for …

panel including potential EMU accession countries. By means of rank regression analysis we uncover the partial links across …

Using a New-Keynesian framework, we investigate how far the inflationary processes in member states of EMU cause …

A major economic reason for the introduction of the euro was its supposedly positive effect on intra-EMU trade …. Existing studies examine this suspicion indirectly using non-EMU data and report ambiguous results. We estimate the euro …-effect directly from data that include EMU observations. Using a dynamic panel model for annual bilateral exports, we find that the …