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Monetary Policy and Inflation Divergences in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union

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  • Nelly Gregoriadis

    (LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans [2008-2011] - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Florina Semenescu

    (LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans [2008-2011] - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Patrick Villieu

    (LEO - Laboratoire d'économie d'Orleans [2008-2011] - UO - Université d'Orléans - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

It is widely recognized that the Euro area is an asymmetric monetary union which assembles countries with heterogeneous structures on financial, goods and labour markets stricken by asymmetric shocks. However, the main objective of the European Central Bank (ECB) is to preserve price stability for the euro area as a whole, and the ECB pays most of its attention to union-wide output and (principally) inflation, neglecting, at least on the level of principles, inflation and output divergences in union. In this paper, we wonder, at a theoretical level, about the social loss associated with such an objective based on aggregate magnitudes, and we search for solutions, namely an "optimal" contract for a common central bank. We show in particular that it is not necessarily a good thing that a common central bank worries about inflation divergences without being concerned about output divergences in union.
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  • Nelly Gregoriadis & Florina Semenescu & Patrick Villieu, 2006. "Monetary Policy and Inflation Divergences in a Heterogeneous Monetary Union," Post-Print halshs-00253898, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00253898
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    Cited by:

    1. Kayam, Saime S., 2011. "Influence of institutional factors and wage-setting mechanism in a dual labour market with currency union: Northern Cyprus," MPRA Paper 39154, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. repec:ebl:ecbull:v:5:y:2008:i:20:p:1-7 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Grégory LEVIEUGE & Cristina BADARAU-SEMENESCU, 2010. "Which policy-mix to mitigate the effects of the financial heterogeneity in a monetary union?," EcoMod2010 259600105, EcoMod.
    4. Patrick Villieu, 2008. "Quelle gouvernance pour une union monétaire asymétrique? Un modèle simple," Brussels Economic Review, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, vol. 51(1), pages 57-78.
    5. Christina Badarau & Grégory Levieuge, 2011. "Which policy-mix to mitigate the effects of financial heterogeneity in a monetary union?," Larefi Working Papers 201109, Larefi, Université Bordeaux 4.

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