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be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …
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coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …
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We analyze the role of labor mobility in cushioning labor demand shocks in the Euro Area. We find that foreign born workers' mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners' higher population to employment elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment...
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banks in individual EU countries help to explain the nature of cross-border merger activity. If they wish to protect …
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EU financial safety nets are social contracts that assign uncertain benefits and burdens to taxpayers in different … develops a way to estimate how well markets and regulators in 14 of the EU-15 countries have controlled deposit … safety-net benefits for individual EU financial institutions. For stockholder-owned banks, input data feature 1993-2004 data …
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National safety nets are imbedded in country-specific regulatory cultures that encompass contradictory goals of nationalistic welfare maximization, merciful treatment of distressed institutions, and bureaucratic blame avoidance. Focusing on this goal conflict, this paper develops two hypotheses....
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-at-risk and bank capital make it unlikely that the crisis-prevention and crisis-resolution schemes incorporated in Basel II and EU …
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As financial institutions and markets transact more and more cross-border business, gaps and flaws in national safety nets become more consequential. Because citizens of host (home) countries may be made to pay for mistakes made in the home (host) country, Basel's lead-regulator paradigm...
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In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
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This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...
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