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This paper analyses the smoothing of asymmetric shocks to output for a sample of OECD countries. It also examines whether the private capital markets will be able to replace the government in providing output smoothing in the euro-area, in the near future. The research finds no evidence of large...
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This paper analyses the smoothing of asymmetric shocks to output for a sample of OECD countries. The research finds no evidence of large differences in the patterns of risk sharing for the 19 OECD countries, the EU-15 or euro-area countries, for the period 1970-1999. However, there were shown to...
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What are the prospects that risk sharing in EMU will ever attain the levels in the US? So far as the risk sharing in … and evidence on the subject. The evidence would indicate that EMU still lags far behind the US as regards the pooling of …
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This paper analyses the smoothing of asymmetric shocks to output for a sample of OECD countries. It also examines whether the private capital markets will be able to replace the government in providing output smoothing in the euro-area, in the near future. The research finds no evidence of large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315913
(EMU) has become patent leading to an intense debate among academics and policy makers. Most of the debate focuses on the … essential to guarantee the sustainability of the EMU. More specifically, we propose mechanisms to cope with intergenerational …
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lessons for EMU? We study these questions based on regional data from the US, Canada, the UK and Italy, and national data from … will reduce the capacity of the members of EMU to smooth shocks via macroeconomic policy, the regime will promote smoothing …
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and the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has increased since the adoption of the euro. We ask: Have the recent … assets? Do investments in EMU countries provide more or less risk sharing per euro invested compared to investments in non-EMU …
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lessons for EMU? We study these questions based on regional data from the US, Canada, the UK and Italy, and national data from … will reduce the capacity of the members of EMU to smooth shocks via macroeconomic policy, the regime will promote smoothing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661432
lessons for EMU? We study these questions based on regional data from the US, Canada, the UK and Italy, and national data from … will reduce the capacity of the members of EMU to smooth shocks via macroeconomic policy, the regime will promote smoothing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756778