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Arming in the global economy : the importance of trade with enemies and friends

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2019 - Current version: December 10, 2018

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

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EU banks rating assignments : is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than "old" ones. We...

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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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Labour mobility and the portability of social rights in the EU

D'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2013 - This version, February 2013

The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...

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The short-run and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development : some panel evidence for Europe

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2021

This paper analyses the short- and long-run effects of trade openness on financial development in a panel including data on 35 European countries over the period 2001-2019. For this purpose, it uses the PMG (pooled mean group) estimator for dynamic panels developed by Pesaran et al. (1999). The...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade flows : evidence from a dynamic panel model

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade flows in the case of the European countries. First, an ARDL dynamic panel model is estimated using the PMG method to analyse monthly data covering the most recent period (2019M1-2021M12); then, the GMM and PCSE approaches are...

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The Covid-19 pandemic and European trade patterns : a sectoral analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria Diana; Sova, … - 2022

This paper examines how the Covid-19 pandemic affected European trade patterns. Specifically, dynamic panel data models are estimated to assess the effects on exports and imports of various sectors and products (selected on the basis of their trading volume or strategic importance) of the...

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Overcoming history through international organizations : historical roots of EU support and euroscepticism

Gehring, Kai - 2019

There is little causal evidence about deep-rooted sources of support for shifting power from nation-states to international organizations. Focusing on the European Union, this paper develops the hypothesis that citizens appreciate the role of international organizations in constraining member...

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Has the Russian invasion of Ukraine reinforced anti-globalization sentiment in Austria?

Gutmann, Jerg; Pitlik, Hans; Fronaschütz, Andrea - 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused disruptions in international trade and highlighted the dependency of small open economies in Europe on imports, especially of energy. These events may have changed Europeans' attitude towards globalization. We study two waves of representative...

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The sustainability of empire in global perspective : the role of international trade patterns

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012

European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...

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