The objectives of this study are to examine both the significance of the impact of farmers' perceptions regarding new technology for the adoption decision and how perceptions themselves are influenced by the decision to adopt new technology. The study is based on data from 96 wheat farms in the...

Unemployment rates as well as income per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labour mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why labour mobility is low in the EU and how it is possible that it remains low. We explore whether...

The key result of the tax competition literature is that governments set inefficiently low tax rates on income from internationally mobile production factors. Therefore, there is a case for coordination of EU capital income taxes, provided that capital is mobile within the EU. We measure how...

Unemployment rates as well as incomes per capita differ vastly across the regions of Europe. Labour mobility can play a role in resolving regional disparities. This paper focuses on the questions why labour mobility is low in the EU and how it is possible that it remains low. We explore...

The objective of this paper is to examine the market efficiency hypothesis for five major exchange rats of the Australian dollar using multivariate cointegration techniques. The conclusion is that cointegrated relations exist in foreign exchange markets when interdependence among exchange rates...

The objectives of this paper are to examine the nominal uncovered interest parity (UIP) hypothesis for three major currencies against the US dollar using the monthly data for the period 1974-1989. Forward looking expectations, interest rate differentials and risk premia variables are used to...