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The Political Economy of Italy in the EMU: What Went Wrong?
Talani, Leila Simona - In: EconStor Open Access Articles (2014), pp. 133-149
Although Italy was amongst the most enthusiastic founding members of the European Economic Community in 1957, the …. The article is based on field research conducted by the author both in Italy and Brussels. The main object of this … by domestic politics and by domestic economic interest groups in Italy with the final aim of assessing the impact of …
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Peripheral Europe's debt and German wages: the role of wage policy in the Euro area
Stockhammer, Engelbert - In: International Journal of Public Policy 7 (2011) 1/2/3, pp. 83-96
The paper argues that the Greek debt crisis, as well as those of other Southern European countries and Ireland, has to be seen in macroeconomic context. The sum of the public sector balance, the (domestic) private sector balance and the current account deficit (or equivalently: the capital...
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Currency depreciations and the U.S.–Italian trade balance: Industry-level estimates
Bahmani-Oskooee, Mohsen; Harvey, Hanafiah; Hegerty, Scott - In: Research in Economics 67 (2013) 3, pp. 215-225
As one of the indebted Southern European countries that have put pressure on the Euro in recent months, Italy would …
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Testing the shape of EMU term structure of interest rates
Ruiz-Dotras, Elisabet; Bolance-Losilla, Catalina; … - In: International Journal of Financial Markets and Derivatives 1 (2010) 4, pp. 422-437
statistically equal only in the early years of the EMU if we consider the four countries. If we consider Germany, France and Spain …
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Empirical evidence on convergence across the PIIGS member states of the Euro-zone
Katsouli, Eleni F.; Katos, Anastasios V. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 6 (2014) 3, pp. 230-242
Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain over the last 30 years. The criteria used for investigating convergence are β …This paper investigates unconditional convergence of major economic variables across the Euro-zone member states of … inflation rate, and the wages inflation rate converge across the five Euro-zone member states. The findings show that the speed …
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The Banking Network as a Transmission Channel of Migrant Remittances: The Case of Greek and Italian Banks in Albania
Karafolas, Simeon; Sariannidis, Nikolaos - In: Transition Studies Review 15 (2009) 4, pp. 674-684
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...
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Macro-level perspective of consumer ethnocentrism: a panel data study in Turkey
Altintas, Murat Hakan; Harcar, Talha; Dulgeroglu, Ismail; … - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 7 (2011) 4, pp. 402-421
This article analyses the relationship between the main antecedents of and imports/GNP ratio as a subtle reflector of macro-level consumer ethnocentrism (CE). We constructed a model that reflects the macro level ethnocentrism in a domestic country. This ratio expresses the economy openness of a...
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European and National Identities in EU's Old and New Member States: Ethnic, Civic, Instrumental and Symbolic Components
Ruiz Jiménez, Antonia M.; Górniak, Jaroslaw Jósef; … - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 8 (2004) 07
In this paper we empirically test three of the most significant theories about the emergence of a European identity. The three approaches considered here are, respectively: first, a "cultural" theory, which understands identities as being based on ethno-cultural factors generated through a...
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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148
economic development (richness), both theories and econometric estimation results are diverging (basically concerning the share …
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