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, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer … by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …
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The Target liabilities of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain) amounted to 314 billion euros in …
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We assess the sustainability of the public finances of Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS), allowing for …
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We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...
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Greece has reached a point where, under any plausible macroeconomic scenario, public debt will continue growing faster … solvency and closing the competitiveness gap. Yet we think Greece stands a better chance of accomplishing these goals from …
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convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include … productivity increases in Greece …
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Against the backdrop of the Greek three-act tragedy, we present a theoretical framework for studying Greece's recent … debt and currency crisis. The model is built on two essential blocks: first, erratic macroeconomic policymaking in Greece … macroeconomic policies in Greece are considered. The model's mechanism and assumptions allow either for a Grexit from the euro area …
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The Greek bail-out was highly controversial. An oft-heard assessment is that i) the bail-out was a mistake, ii) the political haggling over it was irrational and iii) the bail-out will create a moral hazard problem. Contrary to this view, our analysis suggests that, given EMU's present...
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Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
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The Middle East was once seen as a medieval great globalized force. Nowadays it shows one of the lowest intra-regional trade in the world and therefore it is claimed that the region is poorly integrated. Yet, with the steady .ow of workers across national borders of the Middle East is this...
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