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This paper considers the impact on trade of preferential arrangements in Europe since the 1950s. Using a first difference version of the gravity model, we find that the EC and EFTA altered the pattern of international trade. We also find evidence of trade diversion in several cases, notably that...
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Recent proposals for enlarging the European Community to include the EFTA countries raise the question of whether the new members should participate in a European Monetary Union. In part, the issue hinges on the incidence of aggregate supply and demand disturbances. We use data on prices and...
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Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...
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Entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency union force a political integration (as anticipated by Monnet) or will the tensions create a backlash, as suggested by Kaldor, Friedman and many others? We try to answer...
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Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...
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The unemployment rate in the euro area appears to contain a significant nonstationary component, suggesting that some … Keynesian model with unemployment, and assess their empirical relevance …
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not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …
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and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …, consumption, and investment, with annual data on unemployment flows. Parameters and shocks are estimated separately for each … country, which can then vary in terms of search and hiring costs, workers' bargaining power, unemployment benefits levels …
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This paper develops a search-matching model to study the impact of the unemployment rate on the housing market in the … impact of the unemployment rate on housing market outcomes. Specifically, we show that an increase in the unemployment … three percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate lowers the price by 7.74% and reduces the transaction volume by 9 …
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European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed …
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