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"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary …
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This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between...
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This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time...
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This paper studies the productivity effects of integration deepening. The identification strategy exploits the 1995 … integration, the average Norwegian region would have experienced an increase in yearly productivity growth of about 0.6 percentage …
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counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the …
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Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...
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firm-related characteristics (e.g., capital intensity, productivity) contribute significantly. However, considerable wage …
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are facing four underlying and contradictory processes including a Lisbon productivity factor; high eco-social exclusion …
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This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …
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Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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