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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984793

Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania

Arouri, Mohamed; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, … - 2012

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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269931

Globalization, EU enlargement and income distribution

Breuss, Fritz - 2007

factors of production (capital and labor). In contrast, the consequences of FDI from the capital abundant country (EU) to the … country CGE model, including the EU and the CEEC. A panel regression for both regions separately, helps to decide empirically … advantage (increase in global net trade) has contributed to a decline in the labor income shares in the EU. Additionally, those …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347055

Has Austria's Accession to the EU Triggered an Increase in Competition? A Sectoral Markup Study

Badinger, Harald; Breuss, Fritz - 2004

We estimate the pro-competitive effects of Austria's participation in the Single Market after its EU accession in 1995 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435142

Social union, convergence and migration

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507973

Institutions and creative destruction in CEECs : determinants of inefficient use of assets

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Siddiquiy, Martin - 2015

We analyze the relationship between institutional quality and firm efficiency. Using rich data on firms in the European Union between 2005 and 2012, we show that high institutional quality lowers the share of persistently inefficiently used assets. The adverse effect of low institutional quality...

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An estimated two country DSGE model of Austria and the Euro Area

Breuss, Fritz; Rabitsch, Katrin - 2008

We present a two-country New Open Economy Macro model of the Austrian economy within the European Union's Economic & Monetary Union (EMU). The model includes both nominal and real frictions that have proven to be important in matching business cycle facts, and that allows for an investigation of...

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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …

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