Essays about: "Currency union"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 60 essays containing the words Currency union.
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21. Current Account Imbalances in the European Monetary Union
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : This paper investigates empirical determinants of current account positions worldwide with a focus on the countries that started out as the European Monetary Union (including Greece that joined in 2001). Specifically, it addresses the question whether current accounts inside the Eurozone have reacted more sensitively to changes in macroeconomic fundamentals due to the facilitation of inter-country financial flows and the abolishment of foreign currency risk. READ MORE
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22. The Eurasian Economic Union: In Search for Optimality in the Post-Soviet Sphere
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This paper evaluates the economic feasibility of introducing a shared currency within the Eurasian Economic Union - a regional project aimed at the economic integration of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The costs and benefits of sharing legal tender are weighed by assessing the proposed currency area's chances of avoiding or mitigating asymmetric shock. READ MORE
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23. Estimating the trade effects from Finland’s membership in the Euro: What are the lessons for Sweden?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The European Monetary Union was formed over a decade ago with a mission to create a single market with a single currency for the European Union members. Today only 19 out of the European Union members have adopted the official common currency, the Euro. READ MORE
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24. The 2010 Grexit: A counterfactual analysis using a Global VAR
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : The issue whether Greece should leave the euro is important for both Greece and the rest of Europe. As the wrong policy might be very costly it is important that the issue is carefully examined. This thesis analyses a counterfactual scenario where Greece leaves the eurozone. READ MORE
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25. Current account imbalances in the European Union - Can convergence and competitiveness explain the intra-EU current account imbalances
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The current account within the EU has been balanced on an aggregate level; nevertheless divergences among the members have increased since the introduction of the common currency. This thesis aims to explain the intra-EU current account imbalances (in the period 1993-2013) through the convergence and competitiveness hypothesis. READ MORE
