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This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future members from Central and Eastern Europe. For the sample period 1995-2005, the fiscal balance exhibits less inertia and is more counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European...
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the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with … specific welfare reforms as well as broader measures of political preferences. The results suggest that the EU referendum could …
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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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remaining in the EU. Somewhat surprisingly, the intensity of immigration from the EU is positively correlated with the Remain …
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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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We augment the standard cartel formation game from non-cooperative coalition theory, often applied in the context of international environmental agreements on climate change, with the possibility that singletons support coalition formation without becoming coalition members themselves. Rather,...
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(NMS) and six advanced EU-15 economies. It is found that the second stage of the hypothesis, which relates relative sector … tradable goods. In the EU-15, the explanatory factor is segmentation between national markets of tradables, caused by …
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In this paper we propose an alternative explanation for the nature, sources and consequences of inflation rate differentials in a monetary union, such as EMU. To achieve this, we build on the new neoclassical synthesis (NNS) framework, recently advanced by Goodfriend (2002) and Goodfriend and...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain about the degree of centralization within the union. In our model strategic delegation affects the...
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