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Using a modified version of the model presented by Belke and Gros (2007), we analyze the stability of adjustment in a currency union. Using econometric estimates for parameter values we check the stability conditions for the 11 original EMU countries and Greece. We found significant instability...
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inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models …. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth in EMU, however, country-specific deviations from the rest of the …
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area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of … are much less important in explaining the variance of ULC growth. We report evidence for convergence clusters in all …
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This paper compares relative unit labour cost developments in the countries of the euro-area since the beginning of the European Monetary Union (EMU) both with historical developments and with intra-regional unit labour cost developments in the United States of America and Germany. To this end,...
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We find very fast convergence in productivity for the 99 3-digit European industries over the 1985-1998 period …. According to our estimates half of any productivity gap is closed on average in 10 years. The speed of convergence is much … higher than obtained previously in the literature. Convergence in industrial structure is, however, much slower than …
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performance to indicators of cost, regulation and investment into future growth. The convergence process is different in speed … than in the EU. Convergence had been strong in the sixties, disappointing and very different for the three countries in the …
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Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growth and qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, such qualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition of production. Following the implementation...
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This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous 'rationalities of failure,' either of...
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