Has the Euro Shrunk the Band? Relative PPP Convergence in a Currency Union

Author(s):  
Luca Macedoni
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2021 ◽  
pp. 103791
Author(s):  
Pierre-Richard Agénor ◽  
Timothy Jackson ◽  
Pengfei Jia

2005 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bhagwan Chowdhry ◽  
Richard Roll ◽  
Yihong Xia

Relative purchasing power parity (PPP) holds for pure price inflations, which affect prices of all goods and services by the same proportion, while leaving relative prices unchanged. Pure price inflations also affect nominal returns of all traded financial assets by exactly the same amount. Recognizing that relative PPP may not hold for the official inflation data constructed from commodity price indices because of relative price changes and other frictions that cause prices to be “sticky,” we provide a novel method for extracting a proxy for realized pure price inflation from stock returns. We find strong support for relative PPP in the short run using the extracted inflation measures.


Author(s):  
Vojtěch Belling ◽  
Lukáš Kollert ◽  
Martin Vojta

Abstract The paper focuses on conditionality in imf programs for member states of monetary unions in light of the decision of the imf’s Executive Board on Program Design in Currency Unions (2018). Despite the growing importance of supranational institutions, the imf lacked until 2018 any explicit framework for imposing conditions on currency union bodies in cases where a member state of such a union requested an imf program. The aim of this paper is to assess the newly adopted imf approach to conditionality for currency union institutions based on the concept of “policy assurances” and to answer the question of whether the imf had authority to impose conditions on supranational institutions prior to the 2018 Board decision and whether the imf should in principle have such authority.


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