Has the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership Affected Mediterranean Business Cycles?

The Euro-Mediterranean project of security partnership in comparative perspective

The main aspects of the building process of the Euro-Mediterranean security system are assessed in this article with the tools of analysis of the regional security systems. The Mediterranean security project is also compared with other forms and cases of regional security system. The presence of other multilateral initiatives on Mediterranean security is pointed out as a strategic tool for the ...

Monitoring Euro-Mediterranean droughts

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Business Cycles’ Characteristics of the Mediterranean Area Countries

In this paper we investigate the characteristics of business cycles fluctuations in the countries of the Mediterranean region by applying the Christiano-Fitzgerald bandpass filter to the output series of 12 Mediterranean countries over the period 1950-1998. The main properties of business cycle fluctuations (persistence, volatility, asymmetry and synchronization) are computed with reference to ...

European Union Policy towards the Mediterranean: the Euro-med Partnership and Region Building

Smes Contribution to the Creation of the Euro- Mediterranean Region

The paper focuses on the manufacturing sector of 10 Mediterranean Partners, in particular on the industrial structures and their relationship with the market. The EuroMediterranean Partnership, and in particular the project of the free trade area, is placing the North-South relationship in a new context. Several studies have demonstrated that the liberalization of the regional markets and incre...