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Monetary policy and the financial accelerator in a monetary union

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Simon Gilchrist () (Boston University - Department of Economics, 270 Bay State Road, Boston , MA 02215, United States.)
Jean-Olivier Hairault () (Université Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne 12, place du Panthéon, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France.)
Hubert Kempf () (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Equipe Universitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative (EUREQUA), 106-112 Boulevard de l'Hopital, 75647 Paris Cedex 13, France.)

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In this paper, we consider the effect of a monetary union in a model with a significant role for financial market imperfections. We do so by introducing a financial accelerator into a stochastic general equilibrium macro model of a two country economy. We show that financial market imperfections introduce important cross-country transmission mechanisms to asymmetric shocks to supply and demand. Within this framework, we study the likely costs and benefits of monetary union. We also consider the effects of cross-country heterogeneity in financial markets. Both the presence of financial frictions and the use of a single currency have significant impacts on the international propagation of exogenous shocks. The introduction of asymmetries in the financial contract widens the differences in cyclical behavior of national economies in a monetary union, but financial integration compensates the loss of policy instruments. JEL Classification: E52; F31; F33.

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Keywords: Financial accelerator; exchange rate policy; monetary economics; monetary policy and international economics.;

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