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What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

Europe's monetary union is part of a broader process of integration that started in the aftermath of World War II. In this "political guide for economists" we look at the creation of the euro within the bigger picture of European integration. How and why were European institutions established?...

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Do Value-Added Taxes Affect International Trade Flows? Evidence from 30 Years of Tax Reforms

Benzarti, Youssef - 2019

This paper uses all Value Added Tax (VAT) changes across all EU Member States from 1988 to 2016 to estimate the effect of VATs on trade flows. We find small elasticities of trade flows with respect to VATs, in spite of some of the VAT changes being substantial. We estimate substantially smaller...

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Strong Sterling Pound and Weak European Currencies in the Crises : Evidence from Covered Interest Parity of Secured Rates

Fukuda, Shin-ichi - 2016

In the post Lehman period, the interest rate of the US dollar became low on the forward contract because of"flight to quality" to the international currency. However, in the Euro crisis, that of the Sterling pound became equally low, while the other European currencies such as the Danish kroner...

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What Calls to ARMs? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages

Badarinza, Cristian - 2014

The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...

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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?

Perotti, Roberto - 2011

detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many …All four episodes were associated with an expansion; but only in Denmark the driver of growth was internal demand … driver of growth was exports. In Ireland this occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden …

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre - 2006

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

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Fiscal Adjustments in OECD Countries : Composition and Macroeconomic Effects

Alesina, Alberto - 1996

on three case studies: Denmark, Ireland and Italy …

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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries

Giavazzi, Francesco - 1990

two most extreme cases -- Denmark and Ireland. We find that at least in the experience of these two countries the …

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Gains and Losses from Potential Bilateral US-China Trade Retaliation

Dong, Yan - 2011

Results from the conventional model suggest that retaliation between the two countries can be welfare improving for US as it substitutes expenditures into own goods and improve its terms of trade with non retaliatory regions, while China and non retaliatory regions maybe adversely affected....

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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures

Li, Chunding - 2010

Because of large and rapid growing export volumes and its formal status as a non-market economy; China has been the subject of large numbers of both antidumping initiations and measures. Current estimates are that around 40% of such actions are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source...

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