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Is Bulgaria Ready to Join the Euro Area – Income Convergence or Similarity of Shocks Criteria?

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  • Ivan Todorov

    (University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria)

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This article decomposes AD-AS shocks across EU countries using the traditional B-Q SVAR model. The results provide evidence that fluctuations in the Bulgarian economy have a similar origin and contribution to growth as those in the euro area. Therefore, the slower pace of income convergence to EU/EA levels is determined by domestic (fiscal) policy. This calls into question the causality of the argument that Bulgaria will accrue negatives if it adopts the euro before reaching some “mystical†GDP per capita threshold. The EMU integration is likely to produce more net benefits for a larger group of countries with similarity of shocks and may explain why the euro area now has more members than would have seemed possible since the Great recession.

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  • Ivan Todorov, 2023. "Is Bulgaria Ready to Join the Euro Area – Income Convergence or Similarity of Shocks Criteria?," Godishnik na UNSS, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, issue 2, pages 95-105, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nwe:godish:y:2023:i:2:p:95-105
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    Keywords

    monetary policy; EMU; SVAR; AD-AS shocks;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions

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