Showing 1 - 10 of 53
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979886
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
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/10009581725
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
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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375699
The rules laid down in Article 32 of the Protocol No. 18 on the Statute of the European System of Central Banks and of the European Central Bank of the Maastricht Treaty will significantly redistribute European seignorage income and hence the implicit entitlement to the 352 billion stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781634
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781677
Die Studie "EU-Erweiterung und Arbeitskräftemigration" wurde vom ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung , München, im … Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung . Gegenstand der Studie sind die Auswirkungen der geplanten EU-Osterweiterung auf die … EU-Erweiterung werden ökonometrisch fundierte Simulationsrechnungen angestellt, die sich auf die fünf bevölkerung s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744064
While the formal decision of the ECB Council to impose interest on Target claims and liabilities is meaningless, this paper shows that the pooling of primary interest income among national central banks in the Eurozone implies that Target and cash balances do, in fact, bear an effective rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110196