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developing countries as a means of reducing poverty; - Securing energy supplies to the EU; - Improving nuclear safety in the … Former Soviet Union (FSU). The first goal is increasingly perceived as an important dimension of the fight against poverty …
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Poverty increases were recorded mostly in terms of severe material deprivation and low work intensity rates starting … while measures of relative poverty do not appear to have clearly identifiable drivers, income per capita and unemployment … exhibit a significant explanatory power for the severe material deprivation and anchored at risk of poverty rates. In …
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Two seemingly unconnected empirical results suggest an intriguing mechanism. First, economic integration helps harmonize prices internationally, with trade being the primary channel (Rogoff 1996, Goldberg and Knetter 1997). Second, monetary union may greatly increase the amount of trade among...
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This paper uses data on German government bond futures options to examine the behaviour of market expectations around monetary policy actions of the European Central Bank (ECB). In particular, this paper focuses on the asymmetries in bond market expectations, as measured by the skewness of...
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derived from the business surveys of the three major economies within the European Monetary Union (France, Germany, and Italy … in France and Germany; as far as Italy is concerned, forecasts are produced using a model that in the recent past proved …
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