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Asymmetries and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Pre-Crisis Period and Evidence for Europe

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  • Naib ALAKBAROV
  • Utku UTKULU

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The main purpose of this paper is to discover the underlying structure of the debt crisis and examine the cross-country differences by analyzing the asymmetric supply and demand shocks for the member and candidate countries of the European Union for the pre-crisis period. Following the path of Bayoumi and Eichengreen (1993, 1997) and Blanchard and Quah (1989), the calculations show us that Greece has the largest supply shocks, while Turkey has the largest demand shocks. By looking at the impulse response functions associated with the SVARs, it is clear that Greece has the lowest adjustment speed to demand disturbances followed by the United Kingdom. Those countries which experienced debt crises in the EMU, seemed to have big supply and demand shocks and compared to other member countries the adjustment speed of their economies to these shocks are slower.

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  • Naib ALAKBAROV & Utku UTKULU, 2020. "Asymmetries and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Pre-Crisis Period and Evidence for Europe," Sosyoekonomi Journal, Sosyoekonomi Society, issue 28(44).
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    Keywords

    Supply and Demand Shocks; Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Shocks; Adjustment Speeds; the EMU; Optimum Currency Area; Structural VAR (SVAR).;
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    JEL classification:

    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • F42 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • C51 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Construction and Estimation

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