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Competitiveness and External Imbalances within the Euro Area
Dieppe, Alistair - 2013
The onset of the financial crisis in 2008 has highlighted the problems of diverging external imbalances within Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the role of persistent losses in competitiveness. This paper starts by investigating some of the competitiveness factors which contributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089688
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Real Convergence in the Euro Area : A Long-Term Perspective
Diaz del Hoyo, Juan Luis - 2017
In the euro area, there is mixed evidence that the GDP per capita of lower-income economies has been catching up with that of higher-income economies since the start of monetary union. The significant real convergence performance of some of the most recent members contrasts with that of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941989
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Globalisation and the Competitiveness of the Euro Area
di Mauro, Filippo - 2008
Against the background of increasing competition and other significant structural changes implied by globalisation, maintaining and enhancing competitiveness has evolved into one of the prime concerns in most countries. Following up on previous work (see in particular ECB Occasional Papers No....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771666
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The Economic Impact of Next Generation EU : A Euro Area Perspective
Bańkowski, Krzysztof; Bouabdallah, Othman; Semeano, … - 2022
This paper assesses the potential economic impact of Next Generation EU (NGEU), focusing on the euro area. Its findings suggest that the envisaged national investment and reform plans present a coherent package to support both recovery from the pandemic-induced crisis and longer-term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291193
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Virtually Everywhere? Digitalisation and the Euro Area and EU Economies
Anderton, Robert - 2020
Digitalisation can be viewed as a major supply/technology shock affecting macroeconomic aggregates that are important for monetary policy, such as output, productivity, investment, employment and prices. This paper takes stock of developments in the digital economy and their possible impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829748
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The Social and Private Costs of Retail Payment Instruments : A European Perspective
Schmiedel, Heiko; Kostova, Gergana L; Ruttenberg, Wiebe - 2021
The European Central Bank (ECB) carried out a study of the social and private costs of different payment instruments with the participation of 13 national central banks in the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). It shows that the costs to society of providing retail payment services are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315862
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Macroeconomic Imbalances in the Euro Area : Where Do We Stand?
Pierluigi, Beatrice - 2018
This occasional paper reviews the macroeconomic developments in the euro area countries over the past 20 years. It analyses the accumulation of macroeconomic imbalances in the first decade of the EMU and their unwinding during the second decade. It shows that while flow imbalances have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915884
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Costs of Retail Payments – an Overview of Recent National Studies in Europe
Junius, Kerstin; Devigne, Lucas; Honkkila, Juha; … - 2022
The paper provides an overview of studies on the social and private costs of retail payments conducted since 2013 in nine EU countries and collates the results obtained. Social costs of retail payments are the overall costs resulting from providing payment services to society and deriving from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013406430
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Globalisation and the competitiveness of the euro area
di Mauro, Filippo; Forster, Katrin - 2008
Against the background of increasing competition and other significant structural changes implied by globalisation, maintaining and enhancing competitiveness has evolved into one of the prime concerns in most countries. Following up on previous work (see in particular ECB Occasional Papers No....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606249
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The Transition of China to Sustainable Growth – Implications for the Global Economy and the Euro Area
Dieppe, Alistair - 2018
China's rise has been the economic success story of the past four decades but economic growth has been slowing and … domestic imbalances have widened. This paper analyses the recent evolution of China's imbalances, the risks they pose to the … economic outlook and the potential impact of a transition to sustainable growth in China on the global and euro area economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928882