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“UN-Sustainable” Development Goals as a new dimension of the European monetary union core–periphery dualism

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  • R. Santis

    (Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat))

  • L. Biagio

    (Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat))

  • P. Esposito

    (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)

Abstract

Since 2015, the European Commission has been instrumental in integrating the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into targeted economic policies for Member States. Pursuing this broad spectrum of economic, social, and environmental goals could have had significant macroeconomic consequences and redistributive effects between and within European countries. Uneven progress among Member States in achieving the 17 SDGs might have also had a heterogeneous impact on countries’ business cycle trends, thus worsening the preexisting core–periphery dualism observed in the past two decades in some European Monetary Union (EMU) country groups. In this paper, we use a panel VAR to test whether and how the heterogeneous progress of EMU members toward the SDGs has impacted the business cycle movements of 11 EMU countries during the period 2003–2021. The results confirm that progress toward the achievement of SDGs has been detrimental to business cycle convergence between core and periphery countries and within the periphery.

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  • R. Santis & L. Biagio & P. Esposito, 2025. "“UN-Sustainable” Development Goals as a new dimension of the European monetary union core–periphery dualism," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 58(1), pages 1-24, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:ecopln:v:58:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1007_s10644-024-09842-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s10644-024-09842-3
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    Keywords

    Euro; Core–periphery; Convergence; Sustainable development;
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    JEL classification:

    • C5 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling
    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development

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