External Economies and European Integration: The Potential for Self-fulfilling Expectations

Richard Baldwin and Richard Lyons ()

No 471, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: It is often suggested that "European economic and monetary integration is important because people think it is". This paper is an exploratory attempt to formalize this idea. As the basis for our investigation, we rely on recent analysis by Krugman (1989) and Matsuyama (1989), which addresses the process of equilibrium determination in a stylized economy in which more than one equilibrium is possible. As an additional dimension, we also address potential implications for unemployment using the unemployment hysteresis model of Blanchard and Summers (1986).

Keywords: European Integration; External Economics; Self-Fulfilling Expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990-10
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=471 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:471

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.cepr.org/ ... pers/dp.php?dpno=471

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CEPR ().