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Why the European Securities Market is Not Fully Integrated

Giovannini, Alberto - 2008

I describe the challenge of fully integrating securities markets in Europe by integrating the clearing and settlement …

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European Unemployment : The Evolution of Facts and Ideas

Blanchard, Olivier - 2005

In the 1970s, European unemployment started increasing. It increased further in the 1980s, to reach a plateau in the 1990s. It is still high today, although the average unemployment rate hides a high degree of heterogeneity across countries. The focus of researchers and policy makers was...

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The Quality of Labor Relations and Unemployment

Blanchard, Olivier - 2004

In countries where wages are primarily set by collective bargaining, the effects on unemployment of changes in the economic environment depend crucially on the speed of learning of unions. This speed of learning is likely to depend in turn on the quality of the dialogue that unions have with...

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The Economic Future of Europe

Blanchard, Olivier - 2004

After three years of near stagnation, the mood in Europe is definitely gloomy. Many doubt that the European model has a …, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than in the United States. Productivity levels are roughly similar in the … European Union and in the United States today. The main difference is that Europe has used some of the increase in productivity …

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Revisiting European Unemployment : Unemployment, Capital Accumulation, and Factor Prices

Blanchard, Olivier - 1998

This paper starts from two sets of facts about Continental Europe.The first is the steady increase in unemployment … of chronic excess employment by firms. The second explanation points to technological bias: firms in Continental Europe …

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The Determinants of Realignment Expectations Under the EMS : Some Empirical Regularities

Chen, Zhaohui - 1993

The stability of the EMS depends crucially on realignment expectations of the market participants. In this paper we discuss how to measure such expectations and how to relate them to economic fundamentals, central bank reputation, and institutional arrangements of the EMS. We find the following...

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The Currency Reform as the Last Stage of Economic and Monetary Union : Some Policy Questions

Giovannini, Alberto - 1991

The paper discusses the policy problems of a project aimed at substituting several national currencies with one single currency. While these problems are of general interest, the analysis is motivated by the plan for Economic and Monetary Union among the members of the European Community. The...

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Capital Flight and Tax Competition : Are There Viable Solutions to Both Problems?

Giovannini, Alberto - 1990

This paper discusses a model corporate tax system based on the application of the residence principle. This tax system, while preserving national sovereignties, minimizes the distortions from international capital mobility. The paper is motivated by an analysis of European capital income tax...

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Can The European Monetary System Be Copied Outside Europe? Lessons From Ten Years of Monetary Policy Coordination In Europe

Giavazzi, Francesco - 1988

This paper addresses the question of whether the European Monetary System can be copied outside Europe. Our answer is … negative. The EMS is just one element of a more comprehensive design of institutional integration within Europe: the presence … to EMS exchange rate targets in a way that would not be present. say, among the United States, Europe and Japan. The EMS …

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How Do Fixed-Exchange-Rates Regimes Work : The Evidence From The Gold Standard, Bretton Woods and The EMS

Giovannini, Alberto - 1988

This paper defines two competing hypotheses on the working of fixed exchange rates. The "symmetry" hypothesis states that every country is concerned with the good functioning of the system, and cannot afford to deviate from world averages. Every country is just left to follow the rules of the...

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