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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …
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Reflections on Cluster Policies
Brakman, Steven - 2012
Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098963
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Self-Fulfilling Crises in the Eurozone : An Empirical Test
De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
We test the hypothesis that the government bond markets in the Eurozone are more fragile and more susceptible to self-fulfilling liquidity crises than in stand-alone countries. We find evidence that a significant part of the surge in the spreads of the PIGS countries in the Eurozone during...
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The European Central Bank : Lender of Last Resort in the Government Bond Markets?
De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
The sovereign debt crisis has made it clear that central banking is more than keeping inflation low. Central banks are also responsible for financial stability. An essential tool in maintaining financial stability is provided by the capacity of the central bank to be the lender of last resort in...
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A Fragile Eurozone in Search of a Better Governance
De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
When entering a monetary union, member-countries change the nature of their sovereign debt in a fundamental way (e.g., they cease to have control over the currency in which their debt is issued). As a result, financial markets can force these countries' sovereigns into default. In this sense,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092900
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The Fragility of Two Monetary Regimes : The European Monetary System and the Eurozone
Ji, Yuemei - 2013
We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone. We test the hypothesis that in the EMS the fragility arose from the absence of a credible lender of last resort in the foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was...
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Fiscal Rules, Financial Stability and Optimal Currency Areas
De Grauwe, Paul - 2015
In this paper we suggest that Eurozone countries face a policy trade-off among: 1) a common rule imposing co-movements in fiscal policy; 2) financial stability; and 3) financial integration. We provide empirical evidence documenting the existence of such a trade-off in the period characterized...
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A Closer Look at Revealed Comparative Advantage : Gross-versus Value Added Trade Flows
Brakman, Steven - 2015
With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023177
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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe : On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization
Brakman, Steven - 2015
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. In prior research it has been well established that (EU) regions differ in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033744
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Market Liberalization in the European Natural Gas Market - The Importance of Capacity Constraints and Efficiency Differences
Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles; van … - 2021
In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316347