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This paper reconsiders the determinants of the exchange rate by studying the historical episode after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Testing a modified portfolio balance model, we attribute the strength of the deutschmark in the early nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its...
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need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …
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The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … is a rational reaction of the state. The proposed new EU constitution which contains far-reaching rules for a European …
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smaller output decline than the Euro area and the entire EU while the CIS, especially its European part, contracted more … (e.g., EU) and global levels …
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Evaluation of the financial costs of a Eurozone breakup depends critically on the interpretation of TARGET balances. While it has been argued that TARGET claims in the Eurozone can be written off without incurring any losses on the claimants as the value of fiat money is independent of the...
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challenge for the common currency in the medium to long run may come from widespread breaches of EU fiscal rules. So the …
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The euro is the second most important global currency after the US dollar. However, its inter-national role has not increased since its inception in 1999. The private sector prefers using the US dollar rather than the euro because the financial market for US dollar-denominated assets is larger...
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Twenty years of euro history confirms the euro's stability and position as the second global currency. It also enjoys the support of majority of the euro area population and is seen as a good thing for the European Union. The European Central Bank has been successful in keeping inflation at a...
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the EU running structural fiscal deficits. More than half of them (including the biggest ones) breach the Treaty's actual … connected with EU accession cannot serve as excuse in delaying fiscal consolidation.In spite of the growing debate on the … relevance of the EU's fiscal surveillance rules and not excluding the possibility of their limited modification, they should not …
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