Working Paper

Financial Market Integration and Business Cycle Volatility in a Monetary Union

Authors

  • Pierdzioch
  • C.
Publication Date

This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium two-country optimizing sticky-price model to analyze the consequences of international financial market integration for the propagation of asymmetric productivity shocks in a monetary union. The model implies that business cycle volatility is higher the more integrated the capital markets of the member countries of the monetary union are.

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JEL Classification
F33, F36, F41

Key Words

  • Business cycles
  • financial markets
  • Finanzmärkte
  • Konjunkturzyklen
  • Monetary union
  • Open economy macroeconomics