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This paper presents some thoughts on what we can learn from investigating European and East Asian monetary policies and monetary cooperation in historical comparative perspective. This fresh approach to the ongoing global and regional crises highlights the necessity to view problems of national...
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The debt crisis in several member states of the euro area has raised doubts on the viability of European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the future of the euro. While the launch of the euro in 1999 stirred a lot of interest in regional monetary integration and even monetary unification in...
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We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary System (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened …
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We assess the correlation of supply and demand shocks between current countries in the euro area and EU accession candidates from 1993/1995 to 2002.Supply and demand shocks are recovered from estimated structural VAR models of output growth and inflation. Notably, the economic slowdown between...
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We assess the correlation of supply and demand shocks between the countries of the euro area and the accession countries in the 1990s. Shocks are recovered from estimated structural VAR models of output growth and inflation. We find that some accession countries have a quite high correlation of...
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This study inspects if there is greater convergence with Germany amongst the eurozone founding members and if their …
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An Optimum Currency Area (OCA) is characterized by a group of countries for which forgoing the exchange rate mechanism, as an instrument of correcting asymmetric shocks, is compensated by other economic policy instruments. In this paper, we address the issue whether the CEEC are a part of a...
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We assess the correlation of supply and demand shocks between current countries in the euro area and EU accession candidates from 1993/1995 to 2002. Supply and demand shocks are recovered from estimated structural VAR models of output growth and inflation. Notably, the economic slowdown between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224096