This paper takes a first step in analysing how a monetary union performs in the presence of labour market asymmetries. Differences in wage flexibility, market power and country sizes are allowed for in a setting with both country-specific and aggregate shocks. The implications of asymmetries for...

As a function of the digitized world that we live in and the idea about a cashless society, we have experienced how the phenomenon mobile payments has grown in recent years. The work carried out in order to create electronic payment systems for implementation in situations where cash typically...