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Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020

Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms of …'s recurring political unification and Europe's persistent political fragmentation. The existence of a core region of high land …

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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?

Alesina, Alberto - 2017

complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic economic convergence and an increased coordination across …

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Monnet's Error?

Guiso, Luigi - 2015

in pro-European sentiments in the EU 15 countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty seems to have reduced the pro-Europe … the common currency. Europe seems trapped: there is no desire to go backward, no interest in going forward, but it is …

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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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The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown

Gordon, Robert J. - 2019

By merging KLEMS data sets and aggregating over the ten largest Western European nations (EU-10), we are able to compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are provided at the aggregate level, as well as for 16...

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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016

Moriconi, Simone - 2018

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...

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Zombie Credit and (Dis-)Inflation : Evidence from Europe

Acharya, Viral V. - 2020

partial equilibrium estimates suggest that without a rise in zombie credit post 2012, annual inflation in Europe during 2012 …

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