Shift to single currency increased volatility of money growth, paper argues

Decrease in shocks moderated European real economy in 1990s, researchers say

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The move to European monetary union strongly affected the volatility of money growth in eurozone countries, argues a working paper published by the Banque de France.

In On the sources of macroeconomic stability in the euro area, Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi and Jean-Guillaume Sahuc present macroeconomic data from 1980 to 2007. The authors then use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to search the data for structural breaks in the mean and volatility of time series.

They say that 1994, when stage

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