Differences in regulations, technical standards and national medical cultures across EU member states created a highly segmented pharmaceutical market in Europe prior to the implementation of the Single Market Programme. The subsequent reduction in non-tariff barriers to trade would be expected...

We use a novel disaggregate sectoral euro area data set with a regional breakdown to investigate price changes and suggest a new method to extract factors from over-lapping data blocks. This allows us to separately estimate aggregate, sectoral, country-specific and regional components of price...

Im Zuge der Finanzkrise haben Ratingagenturen die Bonität einiger europäischer Staaten vermehrt abgewertet, wodurch sich das wirtschaftliche Umfeld der in diesen Ländern tätigen Unternehmen gewandelt hat und die betroffenen Aktienmärkte Verluste verzeichneten. Aus diesem Grund ist in...

This paper investigates productivity convergence in the Manufacturing sector for a set of European countries using a time series framework. We apply a panel data unit root test (PDUR) to total factor productivity (TFP) differentials, where the null hypothesis--the presence of a unit root or a...