This paper analyzes the determinants of Spain's macroeconomic fluctuations since the inception of the euro in 1999 … structure (especially lower nominal wage and price rigidities in Spain). Finally, we find that EMU membership has had a non …

productivity. In the case of Spain, the retail trade sector is subject to a rich set of regional regulations. This paper provides a … database and a set of indicators on the main restrictions to retail trade in place in Spain's Autonomous Regions (Comunidades …

sector in Spain. We base our analysis on an innovative database that classifies 206,777 regulations by economic sector and …

, Germany, France, UK, Italy and Spain). The empirical methodology departs from the Hall (1988) seminal approach and … other side of the spectrum; Italy and Spain keep an intermediate position. With respect to the bargaining power of trade … mark ups in Italy, France and Germany; on the contrary, in USA, Japan, UK and Spain they have diminished. In the case of …

migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial …

increase in labor utilization within European countries. In particular, we explore the case of Spain. Despite showing one of … in TFP growth. This paper computes an index of labor quality in Spain between 1988 and 2006 using microdata from the … productivity slowdown in Spain: type of occupation held by the individual and unobserved heterogeneity of workers. Both the …

December 1905. This decision left Spain and Italy without a bilateral trade treaty for an entire decade. In the literature …

. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset incorporating information on …