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considers sustained policy commitment to reform. The results indicate the possibility of 'growing out of bad initial conditions … benign exit from the Eurozone with stable investor expectations could substantially dampen the short-run impact …
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-and-file? We investigate this question using legislative speech from the Norwegian Parliament and recently developed techniques for …
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We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...
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This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has … affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February …
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We propose a short-run theory of the extensive margins of trade, comprising the standard international extensive margin and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific policy effects not properly identified in previous...
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three referenda and less euroscepticism in European elections. Survey evidence supports exit and integration as two …
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This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....
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Based on a conjoint survey experiment we explore the support among European citizens for a European Union (EU … survey was fielded in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, in which the prospect of a severe economic shock became realistic …. However, the results of our survey are based on respondent views in a (partially) pre-political environment: respondents had …
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We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....
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diminishing conflicts and mistrust. The numerous reform proposals should be assessed under two key criteria: (1) reducing mistrust …
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