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European microfinance: relevance, efficiency and impact

Fila, Joanna - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 18 (2015) 4, pp. 179-194

Microfinance aims at providing basic financial services such as loans, savings and insurance to socially and financially excluded persons and microentrepreneurs. Among these services, microcredit is the most recognizable instrument of microfinance. Microcredit supplies financial means to start...

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Eu transfers and euroscepticism : can't buy me love?

Borin, Alessandro; Macchi, Elisa; Mancini, Michele - 2018

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration … European Social Survey, different data sources for political parties' stances and transfer records from EU institutions. We … that allows us to single out these effects by means of a regression discontinuity approach. Results show that EU transfers …

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Development and trade competitiveness of the European wine sector : a gravity analysis of intra-EU flows

Lombardi, Pasquale; Dal Bianco, Andrea; Freda, Roberto; … - In: Wine Economics and Policy 5 (2016) 1, pp. 50-59

This study analyses the intra-EU trade of the world's chief wine exporters, namely Italy, France and Spain. Using an … augmented version of the gravity model we empirically assess which of the three countries have experienced growth in intra-EU …

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European consumers' perception of moderate wine consumption on health

Vecchio, Riccardo; Decordi, Giulia; Grésillon, Léa; … - In: Wine Economics and Policy 6 (2017) 1, pp. 14-22

The present study examines the perceptions that French, Italian and Spanish consumers have about the possible health effects of what they consider to be a moderate wine consumption. Furthermore, it identifies whether the following factors positively or negatively influence consumer opinion -...

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Ranking languages in the European Union

Ginsburgh, Victor; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D.; Weber, Shlomo - 2016

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Revisiting public support for the Euro, 1999-2017 : accounting for the crisis and the recovery

Roth, Felix; Baake, Edgar; Jonung, Lars; Nowak-Lehmann … - 2018

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European banks after the global financial crisis : peak accumulated losses, twin crises and business models

Haan, Leo de; Kakes, Jan - 2018

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Structural change and convergence across European regions

Buccellato, Tullio; Corò, Giancarlo - 2018

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Structural change in times of increasing openness : assessing path dependency in European economic integration

Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Heimberger, Philipp; … - 2018

the process of estimating the dynamic effects of openness shocks on 26 EU countries, we develop a taxonomy of European …

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Resource misallocation in European firms : the role of constraints, firm characteristics and managerial decisions

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Revoltella, Debora; Švejnar, Jan; … - 2018

as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent …. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and countries would raise EU GDP by at least 25 percent. Firm characteristics …

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