Should-Read: Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen (1992): Shocking Aspects of European Monetary Unification
Should-Read: Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen (1992): Shocking Aspects of European Monetary Unification: “Data on output and prices for 11 EC member nations… http://www.nber.org/papers/w3949
…aggregate supply and demand disturbances… a VAR decomposition…. Underlying shocks are significantly more idiosyncratic across EC countries than across US regions, which may indicate that the EC will find it more difficult to operate a monetary union. However a core… Germany and her immediate neighbors… shocks of similar magnitude and cohesion as the US regions. EC countries also exhibit a slower response to aggregate shocks than US regions, presumably reflecting lower factor mobility…