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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Greece

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2015

We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...

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EU Banks Rating Assignments : Is there Heterogeneity between New and Old Member Countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our … aim is to assess whether “old” and “new” EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether “new” ones are … intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst “new” EU countries typically have lower ratings than “old” ones, after …

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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence from Four New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2021

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2021

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …

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Are the Baltic Countries Ready to Adopt the Euro? A Generalised Purchasing Power Parity Approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2021

This paper focuses on macroeconomic interdependencies between the Euro area and three transition economies (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia), with the aim of establishing whether the latter are ready to adopt the Euro. The theoretical framework is based on the Generalised Purchasing Power Parity...

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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2008

Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …

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The Brexit as a Forerunner : Monetary Policy, Economic Order and Divergence Forces in the European Union

Mueller, Sebastian - 2018

We analyze the effects of the increasingly expansionary monetary policies on the economic order and on the European integration process. We argue that the market orders shaped in postwar Germany and in Margret Thatcher's United Kingdom have long served as cornerstones for growth, prosperity and...

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Linkages between the US and European Stock Markets : A Fractional Cointegration Approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of US and European stock indices, as well as their linkages, using fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the standard ones usually employed in the literature. The...

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The Failure of ECB Monetary Policy from a Mises-Hayek Perspective

Schnabl, Gunther - 2017

The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek over-investment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable over-investment...

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Central Bank Policy Rates : Are They Cointegrated?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2017

This paper analyses the stochastic properties of and the bilateral linkages between the central bank policy rates of the US, the Eurozone, Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK using fractional integration and cointegration techniques respectively. The univariate analysis suggests a high degree of...

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