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example has been cruelly shaken by the EZ (Euro Zone) crisis, originating increasing doubts about the integration process. It … periphery countries, but surely they will drive Euro Area as a whole to stagnation and lost decades of economic growth, if not …
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that are held for transaction purposes both in Germany and outside the euro area. The estimation of the volume of €20 … now, it was not clear how many of these German-issued euro banknotes are actually used for payment purposes. Owing to the … shipments by the Deutsche Bundesbank - held for transaction purposes outside the euro area was estimated at just over €3 billion …
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It would seem that physical currency should be fading out as the world of payments is increasingly electronic, with new technologies emerging at a rapid pace, and as governments look to restrictions on large-denomination notes as a way to reduce crime and tax evasion. Nonetheless, demand for...
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I study the pricing of American Depositary Receipts around FOMC meetings to identify the impact of US monetary policy on managed exchange rates. ADR investors assess the domestic central bank’s reluctance to maintain a currency peg regime if the costs of mimicking policy rate increases in the...
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This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...
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estimation of the effect of the unemployment rate on the size of the local employment multiplier shows a neat fit to the …
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A review of the types of Innovation System identified in the literature points to different models. Besides the very well-known National, Regional, Local, sectorial, and technological innovation systems, combinations of the previous can be identified, proposing sub-models such as National Open...
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Since early 90s, the issue of income convergence across regions has been widely discussed in a number of papers, both looking at long-term tendencies and trying to establish the role played by several socio-economic determinants. Much less attention has instead been devoted to the analysis of...
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We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...
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results for the euro area and provide evidence that they are due to central bank information effects. That is, ECB …
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