Welfare attitudes in times of crisis and austerity / Bart Meuleman, Wim van Oorschot and Tijs Laenen -- Welfare criticism in times of economic crisis : perceptions of moral, economic and social consequences of the welfare state, 2008-2016 / Bart Meuleman and Sam Delespaul -- The perceived abuse...

This paper proposes estimating causalities in bilateral international trade in simultaneous systems, including domestic and foreign GDP as well as mutual trade flows. Conventional macroeconomic theory mainly follows partial approaches like import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US...

In this paper we analyze European business cycles before and under EMU. Across the two periods we find 1) a significant decline in real exchange rate volatility, 2) significant changes in cross-country correlations, and 3) the volatility of macroeconomic fundamentals largely unchanged. We...