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What political objective should a common central bank in a heterogeneous monetary union pursue? Should it base its decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates of inflation and growth? We find that a central bank...
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The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right … policy implications for EMU enlargement and ECB restructuring. -- monetary policy ; wage setting ; European Monetary Union … ; European Central Bank ; euro area ; ECB reform ; EMU enlargement ; accession countries …
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The paper analyzes the relation between monetary uncertainty and government incentives to implement economic reforms that reduce structural distortions and make economies more flexible. It is shown that uncertainty about the central bank's reaction function leads to more reforms. I relate this...
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Should a common central bank in a heterogeneous monetary union base its decisions on EU-wide averages of economic variables or on national welfare losses? A central bank that minimizes the sum of national welfare losses reacts less to common shocks. Under certain parameter constellations this...
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The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right … policy implications for EMU enlargement and ECB restructuring …
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