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The European Crisis in the Context of the History of Previous Financial Crises

Bordo, Michael D. - 2013

There are some striking similarities between the pre 1914 gold standard and EMU today. Both arrangements are based on fixed exchange rates, monetary and fiscal orthodoxy. Each regime gave easy access by financially underdeveloped peripheral countries to capital from the core countries. But the...

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Small Countries in Monetary Unions : A Two-Tier Model

de Macedo, Jorge Braga - 1985

In a previous analysis of the West African Monetary Union, Macedo(1985a), size is taken to be a major structural characteristic of a country in the sense that large countries are not affected by disturbances originating in small countries but small countries are affected by large countries'...

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The Future of EMU : What Does the History of Monetary Unions Tell Us?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

monetary unions intact. Our main lesson from the history of monetary unions is that political factors will be the central …

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What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

Europe's monetary union is part of a broader process of integration that started in the aftermath of World War II. In …

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A study of trade between Asia and Europe

Vereinte Nationen / Department of Economic and Social … - 1953

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International comparison of gross domestic product in Europe : 1980 ; results ot the European Comparison Programme

Vereinte Nationen / Statistical Commission - 1985

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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection

Cumby, Robert E. - 1984

rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …

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Patents as Options : Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks

Pakes, Ariel - 1984

In many countries holders of patents must pay an annual renewal fee in order to keep their patents in force. This paper uses data on the proportion of patents renewed, and the renewal fees faced by, post World War II cohorts of patents in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction...

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The Heights of Europeans Since 1750 : A New Source For European Economic History

Floud, Roderick - 1984

Economic and social historians have traditionally been concerned to measure changes in the income and welfare of populations in the past.Until recently, however, they have not recognized that anthropometric data, such as evidence on the average height achieved by a population at a particular...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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