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Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003

Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...

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Choosing institutional over economic integration : are there growth effects?

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2020

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Factor price equalization? : the cointegration approach revisited

Berger, Helge; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Factor price equality across countries is an important implication of the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of international trade. Although an influential theoretical result, the model has received surprisingly little empirical support. Burgman and Geppert (1993) argue that this might be due to...

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Institutional integration and productivity growth : evidence from the 1995 enlargement of the European Union

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2021

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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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Zooming out : the trade effect of the euro in historical perspective

Berger, Helge (contributor); Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2005

In 1999, eleven European countries formed the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU); they abandoned their national currencies and adopted a new common currency, the euro. Several recent papers argue that the introduction of the euro has led (by itself) to a sizable and statistically significant...

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"Investing" in care for old age? : an examination of long-term care expenditure dynamics and its spillovers

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2022

draw from a panel of more than a decade worth of expenditure data from a sample of OECD countries. We use a panel Vector … Auto-regressive (panel-VAR) system that consider the dynamics between the dependent variables. We find that LTC expenditure …

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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2017 - This version: September 7th, 2017

Economic downturns give rise to unexpected employment shocks that can reshape the distribution of population income, and hence produce a "middle-class squeeze". However, there is limited empirical evidence testing the latter. This paper aims at testing the "middle-class squeeze" hypothesis...

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as "informal family insurance". We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...

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"Globesity"? : the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake

Costa-Font, Joan; Mas, Núria - 2014

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … with an instrument variable strategy, a lagged structure, and corrections for panel standard errors. The primary driver is …

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