This empirical study investigates if people's concerns about the euro currency affect their life satisfaction. A … about the euro on people's satisfaction with life. The first potential explanation is that perceived economic insecurity … unhappiness among concerned citizens to the actual votes for Germany's first major anti-euro party in the subsequent federal …

(OCA) criteria. Using the DF-GLS and the CIPS* panel unit root test, RIP is tested for a sample of Euro area and non …-Euro area EU member states with respect to Germany for key sub-periods covering 1979 M3 – 2005 M12. RIP is not found to hold for …

estimated with the help of the OLS method by using panel data. The study aims to identify which life quality indicators …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …

To study the effect of the euro on international goods trade one typically estimates a panel model for the level of … explain the upward trend. To correct for that, we extend the panel model (a gravity model) by including a time trend that may …