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Regional currency arrangements : insights from Europe
Christl, Josef - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003340416
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The Euro Crisis and Economic Growth : A Novel Counterfactual Approach
Terzi, Alessio - 2019
warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific … Eurozone's specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866042
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The Global Financial Cycle and Capital Flow Episodes : A Wobbly Link?
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2019
We add to the literature on the influence of the global financial cycle (GFC) and gyrations in capital flows. First, we build a new measure of the GFC based on a structural factor approach, which incorporates theoretical priors in its definition. This measure can also be decomposed in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858195
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From the Investment Plan to the Capital Markets Union : European financial structure and cross border risk-sharing
Berg, Jesper; Clerc, Laurent; Garnier, Olivier; … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506287
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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area
Peersman, Gert - 2019
This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics using a structural VAR model that is identified with an external instrument (i.e. a series of global harvest shocks). The results reveal that exogenous food commodity price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892245
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Climate policies : a burden or a gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2013
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009737413
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World tariff liberalization in agriculture : an assessment following a global CGE trade model for EU15 regions
Standardi, Gabriele; Perali, Federico; Pieroni, Luca - 2014
This paper aims at modeling a global CGE trade model for the EU15 subnational regions. This model is used to assess production reallocation across sectors in each EU15 region, assuming a scenario in which world tariff liberalization is implemented in the agricultural sector. The model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253445
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Distortion effects of export quota policy : an analysis of the China - Raw Materials dispute
Charlier, Christophe; Guillou, Sarah - 2014
The China - Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419928
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Impact of technical barriers to trade on the trade in goods in the information and communications technology sector : differentiating by aim of the regulatory measure
Ghodsi, Mahdi - 2021
In this modern digital world, goods from the information and communications technology (ICT) sector are the engine of the global economy. While tariffs levied on ICT goods have been eliminated or significantly reduced since the conclusion in December 1996 of the Information Technology Agreement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614151
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Non-tariff measures and the quality of imported products
Ghodsi, Mahdi; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
Eight multilateral rounds of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and international agreements under the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have contributed significantly to the reduction of tariffs among WTO members. However, over the years legitimate reasons for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304204