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Welfare Reversals in a Monetary Union †

Welfare Reversals in a Monetary Union † Abstract We show that welfare can be lower under complete financial markets than under autarky in a monetary union with home bias, sticky prices, and asymmetric shocks. Such a monetary union is a second-best environment in which the structure of financial markets affects risk-sharing but also shapes the dynamics of inflation rates and the welfare costs from nominal rigidities. Welfare reversals arise for a variety of empirically plausible degrees of price stickiness when the Marshall-Lerner condition is met. These results carry over a model with active fiscal policies, and hold within a medium-scale model, although to a weaker extent. (JEL E31, E52, E62, F33, F41 ) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics American Economic Association

Welfare Reversals in a Monetary Union †

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American Economic Association
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Copyright © 2014 by the American Economic Association
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1945-7715
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1945-7715
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10.1257/mac.6.4.246
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Abstract

Abstract We show that welfare can be lower under complete financial markets than under autarky in a monetary union with home bias, sticky prices, and asymmetric shocks. Such a monetary union is a second-best environment in which the structure of financial markets affects risk-sharing but also shapes the dynamics of inflation rates and the welfare costs from nominal rigidities. Welfare reversals arise for a variety of empirically plausible degrees of price stickiness when the Marshall-Lerner condition is met. These results carry over a model with active fiscal policies, and hold within a medium-scale model, although to a weaker extent. (JEL E31, E52, E62, F33, F41 )

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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics – American Economic Association

Published: Oct 1, 2014

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