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Relative House Price Dynamics Across Euro Area and US Cities : Convergence or Divergence?
Hiebert, Paul - 2010
differentials in explaining city-level house price dispersion in Germany, France, and the US (but not in Italy or Spain once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142991
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Euro Area Labour Market Reforms : Evidence from a Narrative Panel VAR
Rünstler, Gerhard - 2021
Using new quarterly narrative evidence, this paper examines the macroeconomic impact of reforms of unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the euro area from a Bayesian narrative panel VAR. The approach complements existing micro-econometric evidence by aligning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210534
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Why Do Europeans Work Part-Time? A Cross-Country Panel Analysis
Mourre, Gilles; Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2021
This empirical paper seeks to determine the relative contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries over the 1980s and 1990s, exploiting a panel of EU countries. In the short-run, the business cycle is found to exert a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316586
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A Narrative Database of Labour Market Reforms in Euro Area Economies
Aumond, Romain; Tommaso, Valerio Di; Rünstler, Gerhard - 2022
We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296525
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EMU and the Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks : The Case of Italy
Amisano, Gianni - 2009
at a time-varying VAR model of Italy's relative performance compared with the rest of the euro area, spanning from 1976 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153396
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Does it Pay to Have the Euro? Italy's Politics and Financial Markets under the Lira and the Euro
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2009
's prosperity. The paper focuses on political events in Italy over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in … 1999 has helped insulate Italy's financial markets from the adverse consequences of its traditionally unstable political … system. We find that important political events have exerted a statistically and economically significant effect on Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159357
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Bank Lending and Monetary Transmission in the Euro Area
De Santis, Roberto A. - 2013
in Germany and Italy, which are characterized by a large number of banks; but it is very weak in Spain and more … savings banks with smaller size in Italy. Third, heterogeneity across groups of banks belonging to the same category in any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078975
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Determinants of Firms’ Efficiency : Do Innovations and Finance Constraints Matter? The Case of European Smes
Bonanno, Graziella - 2020
This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation activities. We enrich our understanding on firms' performance by adopting the stochastic frontier approach (SFA), which allows us to estimate profit functions and to obtain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831402
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The Italian Block of the Escb Multi-Country Model
Angelini, Elena; D'Agostino, Antonello; McAdam, Peter - 2021
This paper documents the structure, estimation and simulation properties of the Italian block of the ESCB-multi-country model (MCM). The model is used regularly as an input into Eurosystem projection exercises and, to a lesser extent, in simulation analysis. The specification of the Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317555
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Public Debt and Long-Term Interest Rates : The Case of Germany, Italy and the USA
Strauch, Rolf; Kremer, Manfred; Paesani, Paolo - 2021
macroeconomic consequences of government debt accumulation. Focusing on the USA, Germany and Italy over the 1983-2003 period, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317556