, euro area and UK data points to a substantial deviation from that invariance prediction: expectations of interest rate …

. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our … central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro will lead European prices to become more insulated from exchange …

propose a comprehensive description of how monetary policy affects the euro area economy. We focus mainly on three questions …) if not, is the bank lending channel a likely candidate to complete the story? We find plausible euro-area wide monetary … (relative to consumption) seems to play a larger role in euro area monetary policy transmission than in the U.S. We cannot …

This paper characterizes the transmission mechanism of monetary shocks across countries of the euro area, documents how … this mechanism has changed with the introduction of the euro, and explores some potential explanations. The factor …-augmented VAR (FAVAR) framework used is sufficiently rich to jointly model the euro area dynamics while permitting the transmission …

conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of … contingent Euro forward contracts with value dates at the start of" Stage 3, allows a highly credible preannouncement of the …

Formation of the Euro area raises new questions about the coordination of monetary and fiscal policy. Using a New …

establishingsome stylized facts relating the regional dispersion in headline inflation rates in the euro area as well as in the main …

in the United Kingdom and the euro area, have increased our ability to evaluate the effects that joining monetary union ….K. regime (CPI inflation targeting combined with a floating exchange rate), and adoption of the euro, as monetary policy options … stability under monetary union also diminishes if imports from the euro area are modeled as primarily intermediates instead of …

This paper documents the evidence for a productivity based model of the dollar/euro real exchange rate over the 1985 … the Johansen (1988) and Stock-Watson (1993) procedures. We find that each percentage point in the US-Euro area …