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Economic geography within and between European nations : the role of market potential and density across space and time
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2009
In explaining the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity, urban economics and new economic geography (NEG) dominate recent research in economics. A main difference between these two approaches is that NEG stresses the role of spatial linkages whereas urban economics does not do so. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850511
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A new two-pillar strategy for the ECB
De Grauwe, Paul; Gros, Daniel - 2009
The ECB has been arguing in the past that since there is no trade-off between price stability and financial stability, the pursuit of price stability is the best a central bank can do to also maintain financial stability. We argue that there is a potential trade-off between price stability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888991
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Market liberalization in the European natural gas market : the importance of capacity constraints and efficiency differences
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2009
In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857130
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The positive border effect of EU integration
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2011
, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …
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Self-fulfilling crises in the Eurozone : an empirical test
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575314
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Carbon pricing in the EU : evaluation of different EU ETS reform options
Brink, Corjan; Vollebergh, Herman R. J.; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2015 - This version: November 24, 2015
This paper studies various options to support allowance prices in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), such as … adjusting the cap, an auction reserve price, and fixed and variable carbon taxes in addition to EU ETS. We use a dynamic … at the EU Member State level. We find that both a variable carbon tax and an auction reserve price support effective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392634
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Reforming the EU energy tax directive : assessing the options
Parry, Ian W. H.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2016
The efficiency case for raising fuel tax minima under the EU Energy Tax Directive (ETD) appears nuanced. Some fuels may … potentially much larger gains from extending tax minima to fuels (especially coal) covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422569
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Fiscal rules, financial stability and optimal currency areas
De Grauwe, Paul; Foresti, Pasquale - 2015
In this paper we suggest that Eurozone countries face a policy trade-off among: 1) a common rule imposing co-movements in fiscal policy; 2) financial stability; and 3) financial integration. We provide empirical evidence documenting the existence of such a trade-off in the period characterized...
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The interest rate pass-through in the euro area during the sovereign debt crisis
Borstel, Julia von; Eickmeier, Sandra; Krippner, Leo - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011342420
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Has the financial crisis eroded citizens’ trust in the European Central Bank? : panel data evidence for the euro area ; 1999-2011
Roth, Felix; Gros, Daniel; Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas - 2012 - Revised Version: March 2012
In the aftermath of the financial crisis trust, in the European Central Bank (ECB) has reached an historical low. Taking panel data and using a fixed effects DFGLS estimation for a 12–country sample over the time period 1999 to 2011 with a total of 312 observations, this paper detects a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711914