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Fertility has long been declining in industrialised countries and the existence of public pension systems is considered … pension system depresses fertility. Our theoretical framework highlights that the effect of a public pension system on … fertility works via the impact of contributions in such a system on disposable income as well as via the impact on future …
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The global financial crisis rapidly spread across borders and financial markets, and also distressed EU bond markets. The crisis did not hit all markets in the same way. We measure the strength and direction of linkages between 16 EU sovereign bond markets using a factor-augmented version of the...
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Using new micro data on household wealth from fifteen European countries, the household finance and consumption survey, we first document the substantial cross-country variation in how various measures of wealth are distributed across individual households. Through the lens of a standard,...
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This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...
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The ECB's annual report on financial integration in Europe contributes to the advancement of the European financial …
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The ECB's annual report on financial integration in Europe contributes to the advancement of the process of European …
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The ECB's annual report on financial integration in Europe contributes to the advancement of the European financial … Europe, especially in the euro area, as reflected in the Eurosystem's mission statement. Financial integration fosters a …
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protection in Europe. Increased economic exposure and the growing frequency and severity of natural catastrophes linked to … climate change have been driving up the cost of natural catastrophes in Europe. Between 1981 and 2023, natural catastrophes … widen further due to the increasing risk posed by climate change. Europe is the fastest-warming continent in the world and …
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Restoring competitiveness is broadly acknowledged as the critical building block for achieving sustainable growth, but defining competitiveness, both in terms of tools as well as objectives, is a matter of debate. • The Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) adopts a pragmatic approach,...
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