across countries, we show that these expenditures explain the relative rise of concentration and market power in the US …

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within … their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market … advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and taste heterogeneity all matter for market outcomes, we find that a …

The euro has had a difficult second decade but the project has still had some important successes. The common currency … is popular among the euro area's citizens, intra-European exchange rate instability has been removed and the ECB has … successfully achieved its primary goal of price stability. The single currency's popularity has made the euro more resilient than …

The introduction of the euro meant that countries with sovereign debt problems could not use monetisation and … devaluation as a way to prevent default. The institutional structures of the euro were also widely thought to prevent a country in … difficulties being bailed out by other euro members or having its sovereign debt purchased by the ECB. Despite these restrictions …

nineties and the puzzling decline of the euro during its virtual existence to changes in the demand for deutschmarks in eastern … the dollar and the weakness of the euro reflect the prosperity of the US and the weakness of the European economy on both …