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Financial Contagion under Different Exchange Rate Regimes
This paper reviews the contagion effects of the global financial crises of 1997-99 on five small open economies: the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Israel and Poland. We analyze how the financial markets of these countries were effected under different exchange rate regimes. We look at the impact on exchange rates, interest rates and stock markets. In order to shed some light on the behavior of financial asset holders at times of global crises, we examine the sources of capital flows in Hungary for which country we were able to gather the detailed data necessary for such an analysis. Based on our findings, we offer some concluding remarks regarding the choice of exchange rate regime and the role of capital controls.
Business Cycle Synchronisation in the Enlarged EU: Comovements in the New and Old Members
It is generally recognized that countries wanting to join a monetary union should display the optimal currency area properties. One such property is the similarity of business cycles. We therefore undertook to analyze the synchronization of business cycles between the EMU and eight new EU members from Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), for which the next step to be considered in the integration process is entry into the EMU. In contrast to the usually analyzed GDP and industrial production data, we extend our analysis to the major expenditure and sectoral components of GDP and use several measures of synchronization. The main findings of the paper are that Hungary, Poland and Slovenia have achieved a high degree of synchronization with the EMU for GDP, industrial production and exports, but not for consumption and services. The other CEECs have achieved less or no synchronization. There has been a significant increase in the synchronization of GDP and also its major components in the EMU members since the start of the run-up to EMU. While this lends support for the existence of OCA endogeneity, it can not be unambiguously attributed to it because there is also evidence of a world business cycle. Another finding is that the consumption-correlation puzzle remains, but its magnitude has greatly diminished in the EMU members, which is good news for common monetary policy.business cycle synchronization, consumption-correlation puzzle, EMU, new EU members, OCA endogeneity.
Chiral phase transition in the vector meson extended linear sigma model
In the framework of an SU(3) (axial)vector meson extended linear sigma model
with additional constituent quarks and Polyakov loops, we investigate the
effects of (axial)vector mesons on the chiral phase transition. The parameters
of the Lagrangian are set at zero temperature and we use a hybrid approach
where in the effective potential the constituent quarks are treated at one-loop
level and all the mesons at tree-level. We have four order parameters, two
scalar condensates and two Polyakov loop variables and their temperature and
baryochemical potential dependence are determined from the corresponding field
equations. We also investigate the changes of the tree-level scalar meson
masses in the hot and dense medium.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figure
Existence of the critical endpoint in the vector meson extended linear sigma model
The chiral phase transition of the strongly interacting matter is
investigated at nonzero temperature and baryon chemical potential mu_B within
an extended (2+1) flavor Polyakov constituent quark-meson model which
incorporates the effect of the vector and axial vector mesons. The effect of
the fermionic vacuum and thermal fluctuations computed from the grand potential
of the model is taken into account in the curvature masses of the scalar and
pseudoscalar mesons. The parameters of the model are determined by comparing
masses and tree-level decay widths with experimental values in a
chi^2-minimization procedure which selects between various possible assignments
of scalar nonet states to physical particles. We examine the restoration of the
chiral symmetry by monitoring the temperature evolution of condensates and the
chiral partners' masses and of the mixing angles for the pseudoscalar eta-eta'
and the corresponding scalar complex. We calculate the pressure and various
thermodynamical observables derived from it and compare them to the continuum
extrapolated lattice results of the Wuppertal-Budapest collaboration. We study
the T-mu_B phase diagram of the model and find that a critical end point exists
for parameters of the model, which give acceptable values of chi^2.Comment: 21 pages, 8 color eps figures, published versio
Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is, fiscal convergence (in the form of persistently similar ratios of government surplus/deficit to
GDP) is systematically associated with more synchronized business cycles. We also find evidence that reduced fiscal deficits increase business cycle synchronization. The Maastricht "convergence criteria," used to determine eligibility for EMU, encouraged fiscal convergence and deficit reduction. They may thus have indirectly moved Europe closer to an optimum currency area, by reducing countriesâ abilities to create idiosyncratic fiscal shocks. Our empirical results are economically and statistically significant, and robust
Customer Loyalty Problems in Retail Banking
According to analyses of the most business consulting companies (KPMG, Capgemini, Deloitte, TowerGroup, etc.) customers are discontented with the retail banking experience. To achieve higher business growth, banks must increase customer loyalty by delivering a distinctive experience that combines the right mix of convenience, value and service and forges an emotional bond with consumers. Winners will be those that transform themselves into customer-centric enterprises by having a clear vision of what they want to achieve, fully aligning business processes and IT infrastructure to achieve those goals and engaging their employees in the process. The first step to do it is the identification of customer satisfaction. This paper intends to reveal its essential elements.customer loyalty, customer attitudes, retail banking
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Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is, fiscal convergence (in the form of persistently similar ratios of government surplus/deficit to GDP) is systematically associated with more synchronized business cycles. We also find evidence that reduced fiscal deficits increase business cycle synchronization. The Maastricht %u201Cconvergence criteria,%u201D used to determine eligibility for EMU, encouraged fiscal convergence and deficit reduction. They may thus have indirectly moved Europe closer to an optimum currency area, by reducing countries%u2019 abilities to create idiosyncratic fiscal shocks. Our empirical results are economically and statistically significant, and robust.
Fiscal Divergence and Business Cycle Synchronization: Irresponsibility is Idiosyncratic
Using a panel of 21 OECD countries and 40 years of annual data, we find that countries with similar government budget positions tend to have business cycles that fluctuate more closely. That is, fiscal convergence (in the form of persistently similar ratios of government surplus/deficit to GDP) is systematically associated with more synchronized business cycles. We also find evidence that reduced fiscal deficits increase business cycle synchronization. The Maastricht âconvergence criteria,â used to determine eligibility for EMU, encouraged fiscal convergence and deficit reduction. They may thus have indirectly moved Europe closer to an optimum currency area, by reducing countriesâ abilities to create idiosyncratic fiscal shocks. Our empirical results are economically and statistically significant, and robust.European; monetary; union; policy; Maastricht; criteria; optimum; Mundell.
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