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What can the EMU's peripheral countries learn from regional growth?

Aiginger, Karl; Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013

The experiences of 259 regions in 21 European countries with within country GDP per capita and labour productivity growth suggest that variables associated with pro-active, growth oriented strategies are consistently more important predictors of successful regional development than variables...

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Unconditional convergence in currency unions: An analysis of European regions from 1991 to 2009

Firgo, Matthias; Huber, Peter - 2013

We analyze unconditional within-country convergence from 1991 to 2009 in 21 European countries. Unlike most previous … studies we focus on the heterogeneity of convergence. We find that convergence processes in currency unions are extremely … question the focus of the traditional literature on average (beta-)convergence and suggest substantial non-linearities in …

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Policy options for the development of peripheral regions and countries of Europe

Aiginger, Karl; Huber, Peter; Firgo, Matthias - 2012

Given the recent economic problems of southern EU countries that are rooted in lacking competitiveness, this task will summarise existing knowledge on the factors impeding on or facilitating the economic development of peripheral/low income regions in the EU, and discuss policy options to...

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States, banks, and the financing of the economy : fiscal policy and sovereign risk perspectives

Balling, Morten (ed., introduction) - Colloquium "States, Banks and the Financing of the …; … - 2013

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium "States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy" at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

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The future of sovereign borrowing in Europe

Balling, Morten (ed., introduction); … - Conference on The Future of Sovereign Borrowing in …; … - 2014

In March 2013 around 130 participants from academia, banking and finance, governments and central banking gathered at the premises of the OeNB in Vienna for a conference jointly organized by the European Money and Finance Forum SUERF, the OeNB and the Austrian Society for Bank Research to...

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