The single market is often perceived as the panacea for Europe's economic troubles. It is believed that completing the … single market would boost welfare, stimulate growth and increase European competitiveness. However, identifying and … quantifying the channels through which market integration is expected to engender growth is methodologically complex. Although the …

Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using … business cycle coherence did not increase monotonically. The COVID-19 pandemic made that the signs of the output gaps of euro …