Abstract
Summary The effects of stabilization policy and the impact of wage rigidities are analyzed for a small two-country currency area under the assumption of completely symmetrical demand sides and perfect capital mobility. It is shown that a different degree of wage rigidity within the area has a strong impact on the domestic income response to monetary and fiscal policy measures. While a country whose real wages are comparatively rigid benefits from a nominal appreciation of the joint exchange rate, accompanying a fiscal expansion, a country with a lower degree of real wage rigidity has an incentive to stimulate the domestic economy through a policy of nominal depreciation, such as a monetary expansion. Since both policy actions imply beggar-my-neighbor effects, different wage rigidities express an important reason for conflicts within a currency area and may eventually lead to its break-up.
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