Monetary integration vs. real disintegration: single currency and productivity divergence in the euro areaFootnote ^#

^#Paper submitted at the INFER-supported international workshop Asymmetries in Europe: causes, consequences, remedies, Department of Economics, University Gabriele d’Annunzio, Pescara (Italy), March 31–April 1, 2017

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