Shocking Aspects of European Monetary Unification / Tamim Bayoumi, Barry Eichengreen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayoumi, Tamim.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Eichengreen, Barry.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3949.

NBER working paper series no. w3949

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1992.

Summary:

Data on output and prices for 11 EC member nations are analyzed to extract information on underlying aggregate supply and demand disturbances using a VAR decomposition. The coherence of the underlying shocks across countries and the speed of adjustment to these shocks are then compared to the results from US regional data. We find that the underlying shocks are significantly more idiosyncratic across EC countries than across US regions, which may indicate that the EC will find it more difficult to operate a monetary union. However a core of EC countries, made up of Germany and her immediate neighbors, experience shocks of similar magnitude and cohesion as the US regions. EC countries also exhibit a slower response to aggregate shocks than US regions, presumably reflecting lower factor mobility.

Notes:

Print version record

January 1992.