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Can and Should the EU's Eastern Partnership be Saved?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - CESifo - 2014

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

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Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - CESifo - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...

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Market Access and Intermediate Goods Trade

Hayakawa, Kazunobu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009

The role of importer access to the finished goods market in intermediate goods trade is examined by estimating the gravity-like equation derived from the NEG model. Importer access to demand for finished goods is calculated by using the estimates in the gravity equation for finished goods trade,...

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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union

Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

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Neo-Protectionism and the European Lobbies

Belloc, Marianna - CESifo - 2014

This paper empirically explores the connection between two recent phenomena in the European scenario: the dramatic upsurge of non-tariff trade measures and the remarkable rise in the role of European business lobbies. While these two facts have been widely recognized by the international trade...

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Technological Imitation and Innovation in New European Union Markets

Uzagalieva, Ainura; Kocenda, Evžen; Menezes, Antonio - CESifo - 2010

We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation—are distinguished from one another by identifying the...

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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?

Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

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Purchasing power parities and real expenditures : benchmark year ...

OECD - Paris : OECD - 1985(1987) - 2005(2007); damit Ersch. eingest.

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Eurostat-OECD methodological manual on purchasing power parities

Europäische Kommission / Statistisches Amt - 2006

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Eurostat-OECD Methodological Manual on Purchasing Power Parities

2007

This manual explains the why, the how, and the when of the international price and volume comparisons of GDP organised by Eurostat and the OECD and it provides advice on the use and interpretation of PPP figures they publish.

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