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This paper analyses the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC's) with the euro area in the past ten years and draws implications for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model estimated for a large sample of bilateral trade flows...
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International trade in manufacturing goods has risen strongly over the past decades, contributing to the expansion of global value chains (GVCs). This paper studies how two factors contributed to this rise since 1970: (i) declining “border effects” that are arguably related to the ICT...
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of the EU-South Korea free trade agreement (FTA) on manufacturing trade … disaggregated data, we quantify both the trade impact and the observed heterogeneity in the FTA estimates. In line with literature …, we find that the FTA exerted asymmetric effects in bilateral exports across directions of trade. Compared to previous …
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This paper explores implications of climate change for fiscal policy by assessing the impact of large scale extreme weather events on changes in public budgets. We apply alternative measures for large scale extreme weather events and conclude that the budgetary impact of such events ranges...
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rest of the EA - REA), the US, and the rest of the world, region-specific labour markets with search and matching frictions …
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This paper analyses the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic shock on small open economies in a monetary union with an application to the euro area. Accounting for a high degree of openness and a strong dependence on intra and extra union trade, we focus on the size and the direction of...
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This paper explores the role that the imperfect knowledge of the structure of the economy plays in the uncertainty surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian model averaging procedure on a wide range of models...
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The aim of the paper is to analyse the factors behind the rapid trade integration of the Central and Eastern European countries with the euro area in the past ten years and to gauge the potential for further integration. We use as benchmark an enhanced gravity model estimated with a large sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604591
We analyze the role of economic and security considerations in bilateral trade agreements. We use the pre-World War I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891795
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the empirical relevance of real convergence on the process of nominal convergence for the new EU Member States. We discuss two of the main channels through which real convergence could affect relative prices with respect to the euro area: productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316776