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Highlighting that France and Germany held largely contradicting hopes and aspirations for Europe's common currency, this paper analyzes how the resulting euro contradiction conditioned the ongoing euro crisis as well as current strategies to resolve it. While Germany generally prevailed in...
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Prima facie, competitiveness adjustments in the eurozone, based on unit labor cost developments, appear sensible and in … causal BSP relationship. We apply this framework to computing more appropriate measures of real competitiveness changes in … improvement, in competitiveness in the periphery countries between 2007 and 2013. Second, the pattern of adjustment within the …
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The paper studies symptoms of Dutch disease in the Pakistani economy arising from international remittances. An IV Bayesian analysis is carried out to take care of the endogeneity and uncertainty due to the managed float of Pakistani Rupee. We find evidence for both spending and resource...
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competitiveness in countries in Latin America and the Caribbean between May 2014 and February 2016, a period characterized by … competitiveness. Furthermore, we find that there are very significant differences across products and destinations with regards to … changes in export competitiveness. …
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This article aims at analyzing the problem of real exchange rate appreciation and competitiveness in the EU's ultra …
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exceptional negative shocks in combination with a too weak capacity of the economy to improve its cost competitiveness in the …
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This report studies working time and competitiveness. The first part of the report compares working time in Finland to … time and employment. The second part of the report studies the impact of the Competitiveness Pact on employment and Finnish … competitiveness using Etla's macro model. This analysis separates the impact of working time extension and social security …
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This report studies working time and competitiveness. The first part of the report compares working time in Finland to … time and employment. The second part of the report studies the impact of the Competitiveness Pact on employment and Finnish … competitiveness using Etla's macro model. This analysis separates the impact of working time extension and social security …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134239
The economic success story of the 1990s has been Ireland, with GDP per capita nearly doubling over the decade. In this article Pierre Fortin from the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research provides a detailed examination of the factors behind the...
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