Bulletin n. 2/2011
October 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Andrés Javier, Hurtado Samuel, Ortega Eva, Thomas Carlos
    Spain in the Euro: a general equilibrium analysis
    in Journal of the Spanish Economic Association , Volume 1, Numbers 1-2 / March 2010 ,  2010 ,  67-95
    This paper analyzes the determinants of Spain’s macroeconomic fluctuations since the inception of the euro in 1999, with a special attention to observed growth and inflation differentials with respect to the rest of the European Monetary Union (EMU). For that purpose we estimate the Banco de España DSGE model of the Spanish economy and the rest of the Eurosystem (BEMOD). We find that observed differentials are the result of a combination of asymmetric country-specific shocks (in particular, demand and productivity shocks for growth and cost-push shocks for inflation) as well as asymmetric economic structure (especially lower nominal wage and price rigidities in Spain). Finally, we find that EMU membership has had a nonnegligible effect on observed differentials.
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