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Fiscal Divergence and Current Account Imbalances in Europe

Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - CESifo - 2013

Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the … fiscal policy stances for current account imbalances in Europe since the early 1970s under alternative institutional monetary …

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Corporate Efficiency in Europe

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate …

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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - CESifo - 2012

mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …

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Income inequality, decentralisation and regional development in Western Europe

Pike, Andy J; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tomaney, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is …

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...

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Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008

Ponticelli, Jacopo; Voth, Hans-Joachim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine the extent to which societies become unstable after budget cuts. The results show a clear correlation between fiscal retrenchment and instability. We test if the relationship...

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Europe’s Great Depression: Coordination Failure after the First World War

Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

of the great depression in Europe and the delay of recovery as a failure to coordinate economic policies. Europe could …

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Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Welfare in Europe

Ermisch, John F; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also … assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period …

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The Exchange-Rate Question in Europe

Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper reviews the arguments for and against monetary unification in Europe, taking into account the recent shift …

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Child Care and Mothers' Lifetime Earnings: Some European Contrasts

Davies, Hugh; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

worked and wages. Western Germany and the United Kingdom each have larger earnings `losses' than France and Sweden, where …

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