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conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … bilateral currency conversion factors implied by the 1 January 1999 choices equal closing" market exchange rates on 31 December … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of …
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but also spilled over beyond the euro area. Lower interest rates allowed peripheral countries to run bigger deficits … analyze the geography of international debt flows using multiple data sources and provide evidence that after the euro … euro area …
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but also spilled over beyond the euro area. Lower interest rates allowed peripheral countries to run bigger deficits … analyze the geography of international debt flows using multiple data sources and provide evidence that after the euro … euro area …
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conversion rates between the Euro and the currencies of EMU" member states. Current EU legislation, notably the Maastricht treaty … bilateral currency conversion factors implied by the 1 January 1999 choices equal closing" market exchange rates on 31 December … Euro. " Unfortunately, most of these have potentially damaging side effects. One approach official Stage 2 offers of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308606
provision of lender of last resort facilities in the euro zone and the framework for supervising financial institutions. The … Growth Pact have been justified by the threat high debts might pose to the stability of the euro zone's financial markets. I …
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, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …
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In this paper, I develop a model to analyze how skill premia differ over time and across countries, and use this model to study the impact of international trade on wage inequality. Skill premia are determined by technology and the relative supply of skills. An increase in the relative supply of...
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Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...
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The European Union and the United States operate different variants of market capitalism. The EU model uses social … dialogue institutions to help determine economic outcomes, particularly in the labor market, whereas the US relies more on … market forces. The theory of competitive markets provides a powerful framework for analyzing market driven economies and for …
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We document a change in the character and quality of Turkish economic growth with a turning point around 2007 and link this change to the reversal in the nature of economic institutions, which underwent a series of growth-enhancing reforms following Turkey's financial crisis in 2001, but then...
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