unemployment between a developed, economically integrated area (Eurozone) and a developing one (ASEAN), a decade before and after … the euro was introduced. The most interesting issue is whether macroeconomic policy coordination in the Eurozone has had … and productivity in the Eurozone. Imposing macroeconomic policy variables associated with MC on convergence and growth in …

warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific … Eurozone's specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal …

warranted. To make this claim, this paper uses a Propensity Score Matching Model to produce counterfactuals for the Eurozone … more in the Eurozone periphery than in the standard counterfactual scenario. These results are not dictated by any specific … Eurozone’s specificity, which is instead to be traced back to a sharper-than-expected contraction in investment and fiscal …

disparities among the 12 Western European member countries. In fact, incomes per capita between Southern and Northern Eurozone … members have diverged since the Eurozone was created, in contrast to earlier trends which had seen rapid convergence in living … Eastern European countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Slovenia) which joined the Eurozone between 2007 and 2015 …

pronounced in weaker parts of the Eurozone, with the resulting flight to quality further depressing rate levels, especially for … negative returns. For the Eurozone as a whole, just over 50 percent of sovereign debt is traded at negative yields. This …