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-capita output convergence across a large sample of European regions during the period 1995-2005. We find that net fiscal transfers …. -- Fiscal policy, convergence ; regional economic growth ; regional migration …
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This paper examines the current state of price convergence amongst the eleven initial EMU member states. Special … attention is given to possible changes in the convergence process during the euro cash changeover. We apply the convergence … kernel-density estimates. We find that convergence took place before 2000, slowed down substantially between 2000 and 2003 …
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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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We investigate convergence in European price level, unit labor cost, income, and productivity data over the period of … extremely flexible on order to model a large number of transition paths to convergence. We find regional clusters in consumer … indicate the existence of three convergence clubs without strong regional linkages; Italy and Germany are not converging to any …
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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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Despite its rather broad goal of promoting "economic, social and territorial cohesion", the existing literature has mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the...
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We review the determinants of the discretionary fiscal policy action of governments in the euro area and in other advanced economies during the past 20 years. This is done by estimating fiscal reaction functions using dynamic panel techniques and country-by-country estimates. The results suggest...
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