IMF Working Papers

Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the U.S. and the EU: A Real Story About European Monetary Union

By Alun H. Thomas, Tamim Bayoumi

June 1, 1994

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Alun H. Thomas, and Tamim Bayoumi. Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the U.S. and the EU: A Real Story About European Monetary Union, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed December 22, 2024
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Summary

Structural vector autoregressions are used to analyze the relationship between real output and relative prices within the EU and the United States, Relative price variability appears to be more important for adjustment within the EU than the United States, reflecting the lower integration of goods and factor markets. In the absence of higher market integration, the lower relative price variability implied by the introduction of a single currency in the EU could well cause significant economic disruption.

Subject: Currencies, Econometric analysis, Economic integration, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Monetary unions, Money, National accounts, Personal income, Structural vector autoregression

Keywords: Common currency, Currencies, EMU, EU country, EU country estimate, EU entrant, EU goods, EU result, EU sample period, Europe, Exchange rates, Monetary unions, Nominal exchange rate, Personal income, Price movement, Price response, Relative price, Relative prices, Structural vector autoregression, Supply curve, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/065

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0651994

  • ISBN:

    9781451848632

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 1995.

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