Financial Differences and Business Cycle Co-Movements in a Currency Area

Ester Faia

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2007, vol. 39, issue 1, 151-185

Abstract: I propose a unitary framework to interpret the links between differences in financial structures and the monetary policy regimes, on the one hand, and the correlation of business cycles, on the other. Using a two-country micro-founded model with financial frictions I predict that a greater financial diversity should reduce cyclical correlation under a given monetary regime and that moving from independent monetary policies to a hard peg or a common currency should increase it, for any given degree of financial diversity. I use the recent experience of EMU to test these ideas and show that my model explains reasonably well the broad patterns of business cycle correlation observed recently among the main euro area countries. Copyright 2007 The Ohio State University.

Date: 2007
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