This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

country are identified, and the corresponding shock propagation channels are computed. We establish the statistical properties … of the cyclical fluctuations and investigate the role of each structural common and country-specific shock in the …

investigate (i) the extent to thich two prominent structural VAR approaches can be usefull in recuperating news shock dynamics …

worked to a shock to technology on the basis of the real business cycle model. Irrespective of the problem being addressed …. For these purposes, panel unit root tests are employed to improve power against univariate counterparts. Since cross … section correlation is a distinct feature of the underlying panel data, results are based on various second generation panel …

panel random coefficient model, we show that financial experts have systematically misperceived the ECB's interest rate rule …. -- Central bank communication ; Interest rate forecasts ; Survey expectations ; Panel random coefficient model …

problems, is overcome by adopting a Bayesian Model Averaging approach. I apply this method to a panel data set that covers 17 … applying an instrumental variable estimation approach. -- Unemployment ; institutions ; labor and product markets ; model …