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 …

In this paper, we show that ownership structures vary considerably across Europe, and that the dominant form of …

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

root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … important drivers of inflation rates in an enlarged Europe. House prices matter to some extent in the euro area, whereas the …

This paper reviews empirical evidence, especially from Europe, on how education and training policies can be designed …

We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both … Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …