Rebalancing in the Euro Area and Cyclicality of Current Account Adjustments /

The paper examines progress with the external rebalancing of euro area deficit countries. Relative prices are adjusting at different pace across countries and with different compositions of wage cuts and labor shedding. There is so far limited evidence of resource re-allocation from non-tradable to...

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Autor principal: Tressel, Thierry
Outros Autores: Wang, Shengzu
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Colecção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/130
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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