This paper examines regional inflation divergence within the European EMU aiming at characterizing the properties of inflation differentials. The empirical evidence suggests that a process of price level convergence in the EMU is well on its way.

This paper combines the literature on financial crises with that on international immigrations by investigating whether the increasingly large flows of workers� remittances can help reduce the probability of current account reversals. The rationale for this stands in the great stability and...

Italian Abstract: All'interno dell'UE, la percezione che la convergenza sull'attuale insieme di regole non sia in grado di produrre convergenza sui risultati, o risultati generalmente migliori, ha aumentato la frammentazione socio-politica. Il risultato è stata una crescente domanda di...

Italian Abstract: Il funzionamento dei mercati finanziari richiede l’esistenza di infrastrutture per la conclusione degli scambi degli operatori. Queste devono essere sicure, efficienti e in grado di assicurare l’ordinato svolgimento delle operazioni che vi si effettuano. Lo Statuto del SEBC...

This paper compares main European countries and the euro area specialization patterns. The analysis, that covers the period 1988-1997 and is based on a detailed sectoral breakdown, provides evidence to assess the degree of structural differences and convergence among European countries, which...

The ratification process of the constitutional treaty of the European Union needs to be started from a local level. The collected studies and statements of this paper have been presented in February 2005 and focus the different pro and contras, the opportunities and risks of the treaty in the...

Three industrial organization (IO) models suggested by Dornbusch (1987) are here adapted to study the labor-cost effects on relative prices of tradable goods between the regions of a monetary union. The assumption of imperfect and segmented goods and labor markets makes the analysis best suited...