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European Integration and the Case for Compensatory Regional Policy
Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566199
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Globalization, Integration and Regional Specialization
Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the … integration (such as the new economic geography, urbanization economics, and the theory of comparative advantages), surveys the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700549
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From trade preferences to trade facilitation: Taking stock of the issues
Persson, Maria - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas, the paper concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less … of a failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223281
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Structural Cohesion in Europe: Stylized Facts
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt; Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper establishes eight stylized facts on the evolution of the localization of economic activity across industries and regions in the EU-15 since 1980. Localization, which nests concentration and specialization, is measured by a Theil index. The stylized facts reveal a broad aggregate trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784524
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Disproportionality Measures of Concentration, Specialization, and Polarization
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818782
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The focus axiom and poverty: On the co-existence of precise language and ambiguous meaning in economic measurement
Subramanian, Subbu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321671
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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes
Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion...
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Inequality measurement with subgroup decomposability and level-sensitivity
Subramanian, Subbu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Subgroup decomposability is a very useful property in an inequality measure, and level-sensitivity, which requires a given level of inequality to acquire a greater significance the poorer a population is, is a distributionally appealing axiom for an inequality index to satisfy. In this paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647559
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The BIP trilogy (bipolarization, inequality and polarization): One saga but three different stories
Deutsch, Joseph; Fusco, Alessio; Silber, Jacques - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and polarization. It then shows that a close look at the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956034
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Contagion effect of financial crisis on OECD stock markets
Kazi, Irfan Akbar; Guesmi, Khaled; Kaabia, Olfa - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contagion effect between stock markets of U.S and sixteen OECD countries due to Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009). We apply Dynamic Conditional Correlation GARCH model Engle (2002) to daily stock price data (2002-2009). In order to recognize the contagion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009149314