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Macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area periphery was more recessionary than pre-crisis imbalances would have …
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Using European Commission real-time data, we show that potential output (PO) estimates were substantially and persistently revised downwards after the Great Recession. We decompose PO revisions into revisions of the capital stock, trend labor, and trend total-factor productivity (TFP)....
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econometrically estimated in continuous time with Euro/Dollar data and examined for the possible presence of chaotic motion. Our …
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There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
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bond markets and improved economic sentiment, as reflected in higher equity prices. In contrast, passive euro liquidity …
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In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current … imbalances since the euro introduction and thereby the current European debt crisis. Based on this finding we argue that an …
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We investigate the effects of official fiscal data and creative accounting signals on interest rate spreads between bond yields in the European Union. Our model predicts that risk premia contained in government bond spreads should increase in both the official fiscal position and the expected...
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This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference-in-differences framework, which exploits likely...
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Poland is obligated to adopt the euro after the fulfilment, inter alia, of the exchange rate criterion which requires … estimate real Polish zloty/euro equilibrium rate. Although the main goal of our analysis is to compute measures of current and …
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currencies and adopted a new common currency, the euro. Several recent papers argue that the introduction of the euro has led (by … put the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective. We argue that the creation of the EMU was a continuation (or … integration, the euro's impact on trade disappears. Moreover, a significant part of the trend in European trade integration is …
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