Competitividade e restrição externa na Zona do Euro
By: DINIZ, André Sander
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Contributor(s): JAYME JR., Frederico G.
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ArticlePublisher: São Paulo : Editora 34, jan./mar. 2013Subject(s): Crise Econômica | Reforma Econômica | Cooperação Econômica | Desvalorização Monetária | Inflação | Sistema Monetário | União Européia | União EuropéiaOnline resources: Acesso Revista de Economia Política = Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 33, 1, p. 17-40Abstract: Competitiveness and externa constraint in the Eurozone. The recent debt crisis in Greece, Ireland and Portugal has exposed the fragility existing in the Eurozone for promoting development and economic convergence between the countries that have adopted the currency. Way beyond the fear of insolvency, what is observed is a growing disparity of the most-developed countries in comparison to the less-developed ones, with perverse consequences for the last ones. Once the nominal exchange rates are fixed, the divergent movements in relative prices and wages between the countries have led to totally distinct paths for the real exchange rates. Worsening the scenario, one can observe the incompleteness of the political union, the monetarist focus of the ECB and the lack of labor mobility between the countries, what distances from the argument stated by the theory and puts in jeopardize the future of the Monetary Union
Competitiveness and externa constraint in the Eurozone. The recent debt crisis in Greece, Ireland and Portugal has exposed the fragility existing in the Eurozone for promoting development and economic convergence between the countries that have adopted the currency. Way beyond the fear of insolvency, what is observed is a growing disparity of the most-developed countries in comparison to the less-developed ones, with perverse consequences for the last ones. Once the nominal exchange rates are fixed, the divergent movements in relative prices and wages between the countries have led to totally distinct paths for the real exchange rates. Worsening the scenario, one can observe the incompleteness of the political union, the monetarist focus of the ECB and the lack of labor mobility between the countries, what distances from the argument stated by the theory and puts in jeopardize the future of the Monetary Union
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