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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2008
the EU-15 shows that horizontal investment promotes the diffusion of the production process across the national border …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760087
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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429626
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Welfare effects of the euro cash changeover
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - 2006
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522939
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, no national monetary policies have been implemented that could account for volatility differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961662
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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of an EU tax-benefit system
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012
study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545267
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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
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