The Political Value of Internal Devaluation in the Euro Area Crisis

Autor: Ramon Xifré

Publikováno v: Global Policy. 11:466-477

To overcome the euro area (EA) crisis, the core pushed the periphery to cut labour costs. However, this paper documents that internal devaluation (ID) only mildly improves exports and it can significantly harm firms’ non‐price competitiveness fac

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12854

New development: Eloquent silence—civil service career development in the EU financial assistance programmes conditionality

Autor: Ramon Xifré

Publikováno v: Public Money & Management. 40:607-610

This article examines how civil servants’ career development was treated in the loan-driven EU reform recommendations for Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Ireland and Spain in the aftermath of the 2007–20...

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2020.1724400

Food affordability and nutritional values within the functional unit of a food LCA. An application on regional diets in Spain

Autor: Laura Batlle-Bayer, Pere Fullana-i-Palmer, Rubén Aldaco, Alba Bala, Ramon Xifré, Jaume Albertí

Publikováno v: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2020, 160, 104856
UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Universidad de Cantabria (UC)

This study assesses the environmental impacts associated with current regional-average diets in Spain, and it evaluates the environmental benefits of adopting a diet based on the National Dietary Guidelines (NDG). To establish a fair method for diets

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http://hdl.handle.net/10902/20914

Internal Devaluation as a Commitment Device in the Euro Area Crisis

Autor: Ramon Xifré

Publikováno v: SSRN Electronic Journal.

To overcome the Euro Area crisis, periphery countries were pushed to cut labour costs. However, internal devaluation (ID) is known to improve exports only partially. This opens the question as to why ID was so central in managing the crisis. We argue

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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3694996

Overlooked in the Debate? Non-Price Competitiveness in the Five Largest Euro Area Countries

Autor: Ramon Xifré

Publikováno v: SSRN Electronic Journal.

This paper obtains a comprehensive measure of non-price competitiveness factors (NPCFs) based on a simple international trade model. Trade frictions are reinterpreted as the NPCF’s conditions (inferior product quality, and suboptimal geographical a

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https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3694998