Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155533 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6291
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We argue that if currency union member states have different potential output per capita, output growth rates, or trade balances, the common monetary policy may not be optimal for all of them. Euro area imbalances for potential output and for trade balances are quite large, while output growth imbalances are more modest. Member states with larger imbalances of one type also have larger imbalances of both other types, but a decline of one imbalance need not coincide with a decline of the others. We also show that imbalances are fairly persistent, and are larger in poorer and smaller member states.
Subjects: 
euro area macroeconomic imbalances
common monetary policy
economic convergence
business cycle synchronization
euro crisis
JEL: 
E30
F45
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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