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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
This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one - Norway - did not join the EU. Our synthetic difference-in-differences estimates on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698068
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The role of the exchange rate regime in the process of real and nominal convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013
During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191206
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Enlarging the EMU to the east : what effects on trade?
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Spies, Julia (contributor) - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to assess the implications of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) accession of eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) on their share in EMU-12 imports. Overcoming biases related to endogeneity, omitted variables and sample selection, our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003750287
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What makes a good conference? : analysing the preferences of labor economists
Borghans, Lex; Romans, Margo; Sauermann, Jan - 2010
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to identify the preferences of participants with respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951335
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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309508
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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014
disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in the Eurozone the reaction mainly stems from migration of third …-country nationals. Even within the group of Eurozone nationals, a significant part of the free mobility stems from immigrants from third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238890
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10 years after : EU enlargement, closed borders, and migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683010
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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2018
especially in the Eurozone, the reaction to a very large extent stems from migration of recent EU accession country citizens as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798141
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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?
Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158652
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The obesity epidemic in Europe
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158654