Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202300 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2018/8
Publisher: 
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Abstract: 
The paper reviews adjustment dynamics in the EMU on the basis of estimated DSGE models for four large EA Member States (DE, FR, IT, ES). We compare the response of the four countries to identical shocks and find a particularly strong response of employment and wages in ES, a high sensitivity of IT to investment-related shocks, and a comparatively strong impact of global shocks on the DE economy. We also perform counterfactual exercises that apply the estimated shocks and parameters for ES to DE, FR, and IT. The counterfactual simulations suggest that differences in shocks have been important for GDP growth differentials, and together with structural differences also contributed to differences in employment fluctuations across the four countries considered.
Subjects: 
Estimated DSGE
adjustment dynamics
business cycles
EMU
counterfactuals
JEL: 
E32
F41
F44
F45
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-79-93402-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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