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of the euro area. For this purpose, we differentiate between the departure of weak and strong countries, and examine the …
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of the euro area. For this purpose, we differentiate between the departure of weak and strong countries, and examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732498
This paper provides empirical evidence on the effectiveness of movements in nominal exchange rates in smoothing cyclical imbalances between countries, as explained by the literature on optimal currency areas. We use restrictions from the Mundell-Flemming model (on which the theory of optimal...
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Transcript of an interview with Roland Vaubel, who discusses the Euro as a creature of politics. He explains the …
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EMU has spurred an interest on the effects of monetary unions on regional economic integration. This paper investigates the link between intra-European trade growth and the institutional process of regional integration, of which monetary integration was one step. Special attention is paid to the...
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As the euro is on its second decade, the European sovereign debt crisis and the ever more evident disparities in … a descriptive analysis of the first twelve euro countries under six criteria, leading to a mixed conclusion on whether …
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(objective) values of tests, whose passing would guarantee that costs of adoption of euro would be lower than the benefits …. Second, several empirical observations strongly support the hypothesis that early adoption of euro by the Czech Republic … Czech economy has enough experience with excessively volatile exchange rate. The greatest advantage of adoption of euro will …
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Now that four years have passed since the introduction of the euro as a commercial currency, it has become possible to … precisely that. In brief, the euro zone still falls short as an optimal currency area in most respects. In particular, an … assertions that the euro will force a liberalization of labor markets, so that they can serve as the principal vector of …
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This paper presents a two-country two-industry monetary model, with intermediate inputs and transport costs, which builds a bridge between the New Open Economy Macroeconomics and the New Economic Geography literatures. Endogenously asymmetric shocks arise in this model when the exchange rate...
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What determines sovereign risk? We study the London bond market from the 1870s to the 1930s. Our findings support conventional wisdom concerning the limited credibility of the interwar gold standard. Before 1914, gold standard adherence effectively signalled credibility and shaved 40 to 60 basis...
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