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Despite or because? - Some lessons of German unification for EU enlargement

Busch, Ulrich; Müller, Christian - 2004

The former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt holds that despite the huge transfers from West to East Germany the East German economy does not take off as it was widely expected. We argue it is not despite these transfers but because of them. Building on the common features of the extension of the...

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R&D races and spillovers between the EU and the US: Some causal evidence

Atukeren, Erdal - 2005

relative shares in the world market for high tech exports. …

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Eine Wirtschaftsregierung für Europa? Die EU braucht bessere governance, aber kein gouvernement économique

aus dem Moore, Nils - 2010

der 16 Euro-Mitglieder mit einem eigenen Generalsekretariat auf europäischer Ebene zur Folge haben müsse. Um die Frage zu …

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The euro after its first decade: Weathering the financial storm and enlarging the euro area

Regling, Klaus; Deroose, Servaas; Felke, Reinhard; … - 2010

economic implications, have become more evident in the global economic crisis. The euro has served as a shield during the … made the euro more attractive, and most EU countries that are not yet members of EMU are expected to join during the next …

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Promoting domestic reforms through regionalism

Dee, Philippa; McNaughton, Anne - 2011

There is a strong presumption among economists that domestic reforms are promoted by regionalism. Yet strong empirical evidence for this proposition is lacking. This paper examines both the theoretical arguments and empirical evidence on this issue, drawing on the relevant economic, political,...

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The eurozone in the current crisis

Wyplosz, Charles - 2010

European Central Bank (ECB) intervened promptly and massively to attempt to maintain liquidity in the money market, it has been …

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Appropriate financial instruments for public-private partnership to boost cross-border infrastructural development-EU experience

van der Geest, Willem; Nunez-Ferrer, Jorge - 2011

The member states of the European Union (EU) and the EU institutions have increasingly been using public-private partnerships (PPPs) to accelerate the development of (ambitious) trans-national infrastructure. This paper argues that in the EU (i) private sector partners remain risk-averse; and...

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Managing multinational infrastructure: An analysis of European Union institutional structures and best practice

van der Geest, Willem; Núñez-Ferrer, Jorge - 2011

Creating the framework for cross-border infrastructure cooperation often requires the active role of a third party, an honest broker, to forge convergence of interests. It is often argued that deep European Union (EU)-style integration is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for...

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Money and Inflation in the euro area during the financial crisis

Dreger, Christian; Wolters, Jürgen - 2011

This paper explores the stability of the relation between money demand for M3 and inflation in the euro area by …

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Ramifications of debt restructuring on the euro area: The example of large European economies' exposure to Greece

Belke, Ansgar; Dreger, Christian - 2011

The Greek government budget situation plays a central role in the debt crisis in the euro area. The debt to GDP ratio …. Under realistic conditions, a debt conversion may be the less costly strategy for Greece and the euro area partner states. A … value-added of these calculations lies in a potential transfer to smaller euro area member countries. …

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