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Outline of the course
• Part I: The theory of optimal currency areas (OCA)– The costs of a monetary union– The benefits of a monetary union– Costs and benefits compared
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• Part II: How do existing monetary unions work: the eurozone– The European Central Bank:
institutional features– Monetary Policies in the Eurozone– Fiscal Policies in a monetary union
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Chapter 1
The Costs of a Common Currency
Theory of optimal currency areas
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Introduction
• Costs arise because, when joining monetary union, a country looses monetary policy instrument (e.g. exchange rate)
• This is costly when asymmetric shocks occur
• In this chapter we analyse different sources of asymmetry
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1. Shifts in demand (Mundell)
• Analysis is based on celebrated contribution of Robert Mundell(1961)
• Assume two countries, France and Germany
• Asymmetric shock in demand– Decline in aggregate demand in France– Increase in aggregate demand in Germany– Need to distinguish between permanent and
temporary shock• We will analyze this shock in two regimes
– Monetary union– Monetary independence
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Figure 1.1 Aggregate demand and supply in France and Germany
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• How can France and Germany deal with this shock if they form a monetary union?
• Definition of monetary union– Common currency– Common central bank setting one interest rate
• Thus France cannot stimulate demand using monetary policy; nor can Germany restrict aggregate demand using monetary policy
• Do there exist alternative adjustment mechanisms in monetary union?
First regime: monetary union
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• Wage flexibility– Aggregate supply in France shifts
downwards– Aggregate supply in Germany shifts
upwards
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Figure 1.2 The automatic adjustment process
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Additional adjustment mechanism
• Labour mobility• Is very limited in Europe• Especially for low skilled workers• Main reason: social security
systems
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• Monetary union will be costly, if– Wages and prices are not flexible– If labour is not mobile
• France and Germany may then regret to be in a union
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Second regime: monetary independence
• What if France and Germany had maintained their own currency and national central bank
• Then national interest rate and/or exchange rate can be used
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Figure 1.3 Effects of monetary expansion in France and monetary contraction in Germany
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• Thus when asymmetric shocks occur
• And when there are a lot of rigidities
• Monetary union may be more costly than not being in a monetary union
• What about fiscal policies?
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Insurance against asymmetric shocks
• Insurance against asymmetric shocks can be organized
• Two systems– Public insurance systems– Private insurance systems
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Public insurance systems
• Centralised budget allows for automatic transfers between countries of monetary union– Can offset asymmetric shocks– Is largely absent at European level
(European budget only 1% of EU-GDP– Exists at national level– Creates problems of moral hazard
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• Alternative: flexible national budgets– France allows deficit to accumulate;
Germany allows surplus– Integrated capital markets redistribute
purchasing power– This imples automatic transfers between
generations within the same countries– Create problems of debt accumulation and
sustainability
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Private insurance systems
• Integrated capital markets allow for automatic insurance against shocks
• Example: stock market• Insurance mainly for the wealthy
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Other sources of asymmetry:
• Different labour market institutions– Centralized versus non-centralized wage
bargaining– Symmetric shocks (e.g. oil shocks) are
transmitted differently when institutions differ across countries
• Different legal systems– These lead to different transmission of
symmetric shocks (e.g. interest rate change)– Anglo-Saxon versus continental European
financial markets
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• Different growth rates– Does a monetary union constrain the
growth of less developed countries?
• Different fiscal systems– Countries with less developed fiscal
system rely more on inflation tax– These countries will have to raise
explicit taxes in monetary union
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Symmetric and asymmetric shocks compared
• When shocks are asymmetric – monetary union creates costs compared to
monetary independence– Common central bank cannot deal with
these shocks• When shocks are symmetric :
– Monetary union becomes more attractive compared to monetary independence
– Common central bank can deal with these shocks
– Monetary independence can then lead to conflicts and ‘beggar-my-neighbour’ policies
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Figure B2.1 Symmetric shocks:
ECB can deal with these