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What Is the Optimal Institutional Arrangement for a Monetary Union?

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Gambacorta, L.

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The aim of this paper is to design the optimal institutional arrangement for a monetary union. Using a two-country rational expectations model, the study analyses how the conservatism of the area-wide central bank and the penalty system for fiscal deviation (Stability and Growth Pact) should be designed with respect to different economic shocks.

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Paper provided by Banca Italia - Servizio di Studi in its series Papers with number 356.

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Date of creation: 1999
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Keywords: MONETARY UNION

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E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General
E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System

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