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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms

Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007

"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429626

Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011

so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional …, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529188

Can higher employment levels bring lower poverty in the EU? : regression based simulations of the Europe 2020 target

Marx, Ive; Vandenbroucke, Pieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2011

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …

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Mind the gap : net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US

Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - 2012

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536417

Short and Long-Run Behaviour of Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields

Afonso, António - 2010

This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...

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The Europe 2020 Strategy : Can it Maintain the EU’s Competitiveness in the World?

Gros, Daniel - 2012

-depth look at the Europe 2020 strategy and the goals it sets for the EU, with the aim of shedding light on the question of …

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Optimal tariff versus optimal sanction : the case of European gas imports from Russia

Gros, Daniel - Centre for European Policy Studies - 2022

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Spend-and-Tax : A Panel Data Investigation for the EU

Afonso, António - 2009

, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a …

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‘Whatever It Takes’ to Resolve the European Sovereign Debt Crisis? Bond Pricing Regime Switches and Monetary Policy Effects

Afonso, António - 2017

This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...

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3-Step Analysis of Public Finances Sustainability : The Case of the European Union

Afonso, António - 2008

We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

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