This paper assesses the relationship between EU manufacturing imports from the southern EU and the CEEC. Final goods imports are strongly complementary and intermediate goods imports are substitutive. An increase in the high-skilled to low-skilled labor ratio in the EU-South or the degree of...

This paper assesses the relationship between EU manufacturing imports from the southern EU and the CEEC. Final goods imports are strongly complementary and intermediate goods imports are substitutive. An increase in the high-skilled to low-skilled labor ratio in the EU-South or the degree of...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

Recent work in international economics provides insights into the measurement of product variety change - i.e., the change at the extensive margin of trade - and its consequences for a country's welfare. In such work, the measurement of product variety change is typically taken as given. There...

Recent work in international economics provides insights into the measurement of product variety change - i.e., the change at the extensive margin of trade - and its consequences for a country's welfare. In such work, the measurement of product variety change is typically taken as given. There...