period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France … deficit ; external imbalance ; real exchange rates ; EU ; OECD …

-term yields ; EU ; financial integration ; panel cointegration ; bootstrap …

(1970 - 2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides …

10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU in 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated …

In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a … model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high …

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 …. -- Fiscal sustainability ; EU ; panel cointegration …