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the euro. Despite some dissent, there were a number of arguments in favor of this policy change: it would facilitate … competitiveness at the international level. A decade is an ideal time frame over which to evaluate the success of the euro and whether … it has lived up to expectations. To that aim, Europe and the Euro looks at a number of important issues, including the …
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What is the optimal number of currencies in the world? Common currencies affect trading costs and, thereby, the amounts of trade, output, and consumption. From the perspective of monetary policy, the adoption of another country's currency trades off the benefits of commitment to price stability...
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...
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Markets -- 10 A United Europe? -- 11 The Rhetoric of Dirigisme and Coordination -- 12 The Euro -- 13 Budget Fixes -- 14 A Wake …
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The recent recession has brought fiscal policy back to the forefront, with economists and policy makers struggling to reach a consensus on highly political issues like tax rates and government spending. At the heart of the debate are fiscal multipliers, whose size and sensitivity determine the...
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