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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012

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 Political Economy of European Integration

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

This paper discusses the process of European institutional integration from a political-economy perspective, linking the long-standing political debate on the nature of the European project to the recent economic literature on political integration and disintegration. First, we introduce the...

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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration

Brakman, Steven - 2011

Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...

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What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

Europe's monetary union is part of a broader process of integration that started in the aftermath of World War II. In this “political guide for economists” we look at the creation of the euro within the bigger picture of European integration. How and why were European institutions...

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Whither China? Reform and Economic Integration Among Chinese Regions

Fidrmuc, Jan; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Huang, Shuo - 2021

This paper investigates the changing nature of economic integration in China. Specifically, we consider business-cycle synchronization (correlation of demand and supply shocks) among Chinese provinces during the period 1955-2007. We find that the symmetry of supply shocks has declined after the...

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The Macroeconomic Policy Challenges of Balance Sheet Recession : Lessons from Japan for the European Crisis

Schnabl, Gunther - 2013

The paper compares the boom-and-bust cycles in Japan and Europe with respect to the reasons for excessive booms, the characteristics of the crises, and the (potential) effects of the crisis therapies. As in Japan the consequence of expansionary monetary and fiscal policies is the hysteresis of...

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Ordoliberalism, Pragmatism and the Eurozone Crisis : How the German Tradition Shaped Economic Policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P. - 2015

German policy during the Eurozone crisis supposedly follows an ordoliberal tradition. In this paper, we discuss to what … economic constitution for Europe in which several pillars supposedly aim at ensuring sound money in the Eurozone. The policies … the German government pushed during the Eurozone crisis have been informed by the ordoliberal tradition. In particular …

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Stabilisation and Rebalancing with Fiscal or Monetary Devaluation : A Model-Based Comparison

Vogel, Lukas - 2015

The paper uses a small open economy general equilibrium model to compare fiscal and nominal exchange rate devaluation with respect to their impact on economic activity and the current account. In particular, it investigates to which extent fiscal devaluation mimics nominal exchange rate...

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A Spatial Perspective on European Integration : Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit

Henkel, Marcel - 2017

We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on average, depending on the presumed trade...

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European Integration and the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle

Katsimi, Margarita - 2015

We estimate the Feldstein-Horioka equation for the period 1960-2012 and find structural breaks that coincide with the introduction of the European single market in 1993, the introduction of the euro in 1999 and the financial crisis in 2008. The results suggest that the correlation between...

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