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Structural Adjustment in European Retail Banking: Some Views from Industrial Organisation

Neven, Damien J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

This paper tries to assess how the current program of European integration will affect the structure of the European retail banking industry. It is argued that trade in banking services is, and will presumably remain, limited, while there is still concern about possible trade diversion. Next, we...

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European Integration and the Future of the Welfare State

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper argues that increased factor mobility incurs the risk of dismantling the welfare state, even though this state may have useful allocative functions. It will be difficult to finance the welfare state with taxes on capital and it may be necessary to subsidize this factor in the sense...

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Banking Competition and European Integration

Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

We assess how banking competition will be affected by the process of deregulation and integration in European financial markets, drawing on the lessons of recent research in finance, banking and industrial organization. Our central thesis contends that the main effect of integration will be to...

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Do Benevolent Aspects Have Room in Explaining EU Budget Receipts?

Kauppi, Heikki; Widgrén, Mika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper evaluates the determination of receipts from EU budget by considering a richer institutional structure than in earlier studies. We assume that the member states have self-interested objectives in CM trying to minimize their contributions within the given framework of the EU budget...

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The International Business Cycle in a Changing World: Volatility and the Propagation of Shocks in the G-7

Artis, Michael J; Osborn, Denise; Perez-Vazquez, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

reveals that E15 has a steadily increasing impact on the US economy over time, while the effects of the US on Europe have been …

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Growth and European Integration: Towards an Empirical Assessment

Baldwin, Richard; Seghezza, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Broadly speaking, European integration affects growth by stimulating the accumulation of physical capital and/or knowledge capital (i.e. technology). This paper surveys existing empirical work on integration and growth concluding that there is strong evidence that trade liberalization promotes...

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National Policies and Local Economies: Europe and the United States

Forni, Mario; Reichlin, Lucrezia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

regions (counties) in each country (state), but it is not common to Europe (United States) as a whole. We build on Forni and … large cross-sectional dimension of the data set. The empirical findings show that Europe has a level of integration similar … to that of the United States. In general, we find that the national dimension in Europe is not very important: around 75 …

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Growth Effects of European Integration

Henrekson, Magnus; Torstensson, Rasha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper deals with the effects of European integration in the EC and EFTA on economic growth. Base regressions suggest that EC and EFTA memberships do in fact have a positive and significant effect on economic growth, and that there is no significant difference between EC and EFTA membership....

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The Economic Impact of European Integration

Boltho, Andrea; Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

-upon aspects of Europe’s development since the end of World War II. It is hard to imagine that Europe’s economy would have …

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Competition and Imports in the European Market

Jacquemin, Alexis; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Theoretical and empirical research suggests that import competition within European markets imposes a major constraint on domestic firms's price-cost margins. The programme for the completion of the European Community's (EC) internal market by 1992 is largely based on the effects expected from a...

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