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This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...
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Low international competitiveness of a set of euro area countries, which have become evident by large current account deficits and rising risk premiums on government bonds, is one of the most challenging economic policy issues for Europe. We analyse the role of private restructuring and public...
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, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a …
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This paper analyses the European budget and the position of the ten new member states. We argue that the EU budget … that the current EU budget setting is, at best, neutral with respect to the EU-wide long-term growth potential and may … actually hamper growth in the majority of the EU countries if the distortionary nature of taxation is taken into account …
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In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed further light on the role of microeconomic factors vs. macroeconomic factors in influencing the...
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EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on … the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is due not only to the arcane voting rules within the EU, but also to … together and that their influence is thus fairly limited. We argue that as the EU seemingly lacks energy to implement further …
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early 2000's both in quot;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU member states. We estimate effects of labour market institutions on …;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU members …
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Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …
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We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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