This Working Ppaer confirms that labor productivity in the European economies has continued to slow down in recent years. U.S. productivity growth has been higher than in the EU, but only since 2001. At the same time, both economies have modified previous employment performance: EU employment...

The European Union gas model worked steadily for nearly four decades: since the time that gas first emerged as an important resource in European energy demand. However, since the late 1990s this stability has been disrupted by a number of factors. The EU reform agenda has been the most important...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el intervalo 1994-2003 dentro del tramo descendente del movimiento cíclico de largo plazo de las economías europeas. Dado que la dinámica económica describe una trayectoria irregular, los intervalos de tiempo en los que se estudia esa dinámica no...