While the persistent core-periphery dualism within the European Monetary Union (EMU) has been extensively studied, its relationship to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains unexplored. This is surprising, given the EU's strong commitment to achieving the 17 SDGs by 2030. The SDGs...

This paper revisits a traditional theme in the literature on the political economy of development, namely how to redistribute rents from traditional exporters of natural resources toward capitalists in technology-intensive sectors with a higher potential for innovation and the creation of...

Τhe first Eurozone crisis has increased core-periphery imbalances at the EMU, as expected from theory. It was followed by a significant structural change, through laying down the foundations for a Banking, Fiscal and Capital Markets Union. Using GNI per capita and employment indexes from 2009...