Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Guido Enrico; Trebbi, Francesco - 2017
within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a … complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic economic convergence and an increased coordination across … national and subnational business cycles since 1980, this was not accompanied by cultural nor institutional convergence. Such …