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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria
van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …
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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250741
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COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination and household expenditures : regional evidence from Turkish credit card data
Gul, Selcuk; Hacıhasanoğlu, Yavuz Selim; Kazdal, Abdullah - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 11, pp. 988-991
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Trade Costs in Services : Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2020
This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844212
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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata
Ariu, Andrea - 2019
This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861415
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Assessing European Competitiveness : The New CompNet Microbased Database
Lopez-Garcia, Paloma - 2015
Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitiveness-related indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026277
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Service Offshoring and Export Experience
Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021
Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
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Corruption and Access to Socio-Economic Services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246910
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Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects
Klautke, Tina; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2008
The Savings Directive has been celebrated as a major political break-through in coordinating taxation in Europe. Against this background, the present paper evaluates the real-world effects of this directive. The directive has left a loophole by providing grandfathering (exemption from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277186
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Changes in the Austrian Structure of Wages, 1996-2002 : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pointner, Wolfgang - 2010
Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136100