Guerrieri, Paolo; Esposito, Piero - In: ECONOMIA E POLITICA INDUSTRIALE 2012/2 (2012) 2, pp. 17-53
The aim of the paper is to compare the growth and external performances of Germany and Italy in the 1999-2009 ten-year period, i.e., from the advent of European Monetary Union (EMU) up to the financial crisis. Although both economies have been dubbed export-driven growth models in the past, the...