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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials

Abbritti, Mirko - 2012

and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the … volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …

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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union

Baas, Timo - 2018

trade result in an asymmetric reaction to an otherwise symmetric shock. In this context, we show that oil price shocks can …

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Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2022

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA). We exploit unique data from a unified labour force household survey which covers natives and migrants in the seven economic capitals of the region. We...

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Southern African Economic Integration : Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model

Warin, Thierry - 2009

Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and …

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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-Term Solution of the Euro Crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks : Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2021

Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...

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Monetary Persistence, Imperfect Competition, and Staggering Complementarities

Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. We show that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary in generating monetary persistence. We do so by proposing the new measure of quantitative inertia, after discussing...

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Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and Their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission

Hintermaier, Thomas - 2019

This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...

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Government Deficit Shocks and Okun's Coefficient Volatility : New Insights on the Austerity Versus Growth Debate

Binh Thai Pham - 2019

This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...

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Testing Mundell's Intuition of Endogenous OCA Theory

Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phani V.; Janicki, Hubert - 2021

This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998 …'s model by using FDI flows to test the original theory developed by Mundell in 1973. A gravity model is used to empirically …

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