“...An influential literature argues that trade promotes knowledge flows and technology transmission between trading partners. This literature focuses on `direct'...”

“...This paper derives a stochastic endogenous growth model to investigate the impact of European Union (EU) integration on convergence and productivity growth...”

“...We propose a blueprint for an international emission permit market such as the EU trading scheme. Each country decides on the amount of permits it wants to...”

“...Several authors have argued that a centralization of fiscal powers in a federation is less likely to occur if citizens have to approve a change in the...”

“...We try to demonstrate how economists may engage in research on comparative politics, relating the size and composition of government spending to the political...”

“...The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four...”

“...In this paper we show that measures of economic uncertainty (conditional volatility of consumption) predict and are predicted by valuation ratios at long...”

“...In this paper the recent effect of the European Monetary Union on inward FDI-flows is examined using a difference-in-differences approach. The estimated...”

“...This paper develops a fully endogenous, variety-expansion growth model with firm-specific quality heterogeneity, limit pricing, and an endogenous distribution...”

“...While privatization of state-owned enterprises has been one of the most important aspects of the economic transition from a centrally planned to a market...”