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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity
Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003
We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete in a differentiated loan market, hold reserves against liquidity shocks, and refinance in the interbank market. A merger creates an internal money market that induces financial...
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Temporary shocks and unavoidable transitions to a high-unemployment regime
Den Haan, Wouter J. - 2003
This paper develops a model with multiple steady states (low tax and unemployment rate versus high tax and unemployment … European unemployment rates observed during the seventies. The explanation given is that even if the unemployment rate would … job creation remains low making the return to a low unemployment rate impossible. The paper shows that in some cases …
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The immigrant/native wealth gap in Germany, Italy and Luxembourg
Mathä, Thomas Y.; Porpiglia, Alessandro; Sierminska, Eva - 2011
for demographic characteristics, country of origin, cohort and age at migration although cross-country differences exist …
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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries
Zaghini, Andrea - 2003
The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in 2004, by studying the dynamics of their comparative advantages over the period 1993-2000. The study finds that, although some countries are still broadly relying on natural...
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The impact of monetary union on trade prices
Anderton, Robert; Baldwin, Richard E.; Taglioni, Daria - 2003
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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Trade costs, openness and productivity
Lejour, Arjan; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo; Rodriguez, Victor; … - 2009
This paper discusses the channels between openness and productivity and trade hampering factors. The stylized facts from the heterogeneous firms literature suggests that firms face market entry costs for each new product they export and to each new export market. Transport costs, border costs...
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Trade with central and eastern Europe
Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...
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Financial regulation, financial globalization and the synchronization of economic activity
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Papaioannou, Elias; Peydró, … - 2010
We identify the effect of financial integration on international business cycle synchronization, by utilizing a confidential database on banks’ bilateral exposure and employing a country-pair panel instrumental variables approach. Countries that become more integrated over time have less...
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Sectorial border effects in the European Single Market
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2009
The purpose of this paper is to explain the relation between the Border Effect and industrial concentration. This is achieved by founding this relation on the Home Market Effect and testing the robustness of this foundation through an application to the European Single Market. A sectorial...
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Is China climbing up the quality ladder?
Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011
There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...
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