In the present paper it will be shown that government debt has a negative impact on Balassa index. Data are annual and cover most Western European countries for the period 1990-2006. The estimation of the panel data model is made feasible through the Eviews software package

Using an analog of the boundary element method in engineering and science, we analyze and model unemployment rate in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States as a function of inflation and the change in labor force. Originally, the model linking unemployment to...

This paper documents the migrant-to-native gap in political preferences towards redistribution, restriction on gay rights, European integration, immigration policy, and political trust using repeated cross-sectional data from the European Social Survey. At the country level, our findings reveal...