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Title: Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the US and EU: A Real Story About European Monetary Union

Author(s): Tamim Bayoumi and Alun Thomas

Publication Date: July 1994

Keyword(s): Common Currency, EMU and Relative Prices

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: Structural vector autoregressions are used to analyse the relationship between real output and relative prices within the European Union (EU) and the United States. Relative price variability appears to be more important for adjustment within the EU than the United States, reflecting the lower integration of goods and factor markets. In the absence of higher market integration, the lower relative price variability implied by the introduction of a single currency in the EU could well cause significant economic disruption.

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Bayoumi, T and Thomas, A. 1994. 'Relative Prices and Economic Adjustment in the US and EU: A Real Story About European Monetary Union'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=988