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transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these recipient …
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Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …
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United Kingdom, Japan, and the United States. Available data on the capital-output ratio suggest that these countries grew as … present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide range of …
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stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …
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three approaches to analyze debt sustainability in the United States and Europe after the recent surge in public debt …
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This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...
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By merging KLEMS data sets and aggregating over the ten largest Western European nations (EU-10), we are able to compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are provided at the aggregate level, as well as for 16...
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...
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variation in these factors across Europe. Competitive pressures should lead to a convergence of regulation, but national …
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