Politická ekonomie 2004, 52(2):153-164 | DOI: 10.18267/j.polek.455

Podobnosť ponukových a dopytových šokov v Európskej Únii a v pristupujúcich krajinách (implikácie pre Českú republiku a Slovensko)

Jarko Fidrmuc, Eduard Hagara
1 Österreichische Nationalbank, Wien a Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava.
2 Univerzita Komenského, Bratislava.

Similarity of supply and demand shocks in the European Union and acceding countries (implications for the Czech republic and Slovakia)

In this contribution, we compare the correlation of supply and demand shocks for the countries of the euro zone and the acceding countries in Central Europe. Demand and supply shocks are recovered from estimated structural VAR models of output growth and inflation in individual countries. We find that Poland and Hungary face already a comparably high similarity with the countries of the current euro zone. However, the remaining countries show still significant differences in business cycles as compared to the euro zone. This is likely to indicate that the loss of monetary sovereignty may be costly. In turn, the integration is expected to align the business cycles of these countries in the medium run. We document a similar development for the countries of the European Union in the 1990s.

Keywords: optimum currency area, EU enlargement, structural VAR
JEL classification: E32, F42

Published: April 1, 2004  Show citation

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Fidrmuc, J., & Hagara, E. (2004). Similarity of supply and demand shocks in the European Union and acceding countries (implications for the Czech republic and Slovakia). Politická ekonomie, 52(2), 153-164. doi: 10.18267/j.polek.455
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