• DOI:10.1093/OXREP/14.3.54
Corpus ID: 11862534

Asymmetries in Housing and Financial Market Institutions and EMU

@article{Maclennan1998AsymmetriesIH,
  title={Asymmetries in Housing and Financial Market Institutions and EMU},
  author={D. Maclennan and J. Muellbauer and M. Stephens},
  journal={Oxford Review of Economic Policy},
  year={1998},
  volume={14},
  pages={54-80}
}

• D. Maclennan, J. Muellbauer, M. Stephens
• Published 1998
• Economics
• Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Despite convergence pressures, differences in housing and financial market institutions across the 15 member states of the European Union are still enormous. This paper argues that they have profound effects on the responsiveness of output and inflation in the different countries to changes in short-term interest rates, as well as to asset market shocks of external origin. The economic reasoning behind this claim is set out and the institutional differences are described. The paper assesses the… Expand

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