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Does fiscal consolidation lead to social unrest? Using cross-country evidence for the period 1919 to 2008, we examine the extent to which societies become unstable after budget cuts. The results show a clear correlation between fiscal retrenchment and instability. We test if the relationship...
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Avec une multitude de très petites exploitations et un foncier morcelé, l'agriculture roumaine porte encore les traces des dernières politiques foncières. La volonté de stimuler le marché foncier et encourager la compétitivité des structures agricoles par la modernisation du système de...
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Jusqu’au milieu des années 1980, la Pologne faisait partie des pays européens dont la population croissait le plus vite. Cette tendance s’est inversée au point qu’en 1999, pour la première fois, la population a diminué. L’espérance de vie a tendance à s’élever. Depuis la fin de...
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Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate …
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La Suisse, au cÅ“ur de l’Europe, constitue, en matière de politique agricole, un cas d’étude intéressant. Alors que les …Swiss agricultural policy, as Switzerland is in the hearth of Europe, offers an interesting case to be studied. Whilst …
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
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We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We...
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Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is …
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Geography is widely viewed as the important determinant of city location. This paper empirically disentangles the different roles of geography in shaping the European city system. We present a new database that covers all actual cities as well as potential city locations over the period when the...
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