Deciding to Enter a Monetary Union : : TheRole of Trade and Financial Linkages / / Ruy Lama, Pau Rabanal

• Autore: Lama Ruy
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (53 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Monetary unions; International trade; Banks and Banking; Exports and Imports; Financial Risk Management; Foreign Exchange; Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; Monetary Policy; Open Economy Macroeconomics; International Policy Coordination and Transmission; International Business Cycles; Financial Aspects of Economic Integration; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth; Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects; Financial Crises; Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems; International economics; Finance; Currency; Foreign exchange; Economic & financial crises & disasters; Monetary economics; Consumption; Interest rate parity; Real exchange rates; Financial crises; Economic integration; National accounts; Financial services; Currencies; Money; Economics; Interest rates
• Soggetto geografico: United Kingdom
• Altri autori: RabanalPau
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. The Model; 2.1 Households, International Assets Markets, and Staggered Wage Setting; 2.2 Firms; 2.3 Closing the Model; 3. Bayesian Estimation; 3.1 Data; 3.2 Model Dynamics and Data Transformations; 3.3 Estimation: Priors and Posteriors; Tables; Table 1 Calibrated Parameters; Table 2 Prior Distributions; Table 3 Posterior Distributions, structural parameters; Table 4 Posterior Distributions, shocks parameters; 4. Policy Analysis: Welfare Gains of Entering a Monetary Union; Table 5 Second Moments; Table 6 Steady State Effects and Welfare Gains ; Table 7 Business Cycle Effects and Welfare Gains5. Sensitivity Analysis; 6. Conclusions; Technical Appendix; References; Figures; Figure 1 Monetary Policy Rates in United Kingdom and the Euro Area: 1999-2011; Figure 2 Trade with Euro Area in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom; Figure 3 Risk Premium in France, Italy, Spain the United Kingdom; Figure 4 Impulse Response Functions to 25 basis points increase in UIP Shock; Figure 5 Sensitivity Analysis of Welfare
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper evaluates the role of trade and financial linkages in the decision to enter a monetary union. We estimate a two-country DSGE model for the U.K. economy and the euro area, and use the model to compute the welfare trade-offs from joining the euro. We evaluate two alternative scenarios. In the first one, we consider a reduction of trade costs that occurs after the adoption of a common currency. In the second, we introduce interest rate spread shocks of the same magnitude as the ones observed during the recent debt crisis in Europe. The reduction of trade costs generates a net welfare gain of 0.9 percent of life-time consumption, while the increased interest rate spread volatility generates a net welfare cost of 2.9 percentage points. The welfare calculation suggests two ways to preserve the welfare gains in a monetary union: ensuring fiscal and financial stability that reduces macroeconomic country risk, and increasing wage flexibility such that the economy adjusts to external shocks faster.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deciding to Enter a Monetary Union
• ISBN: 1-4755-1226-0; 1-4755-1225-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786481403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2012/240