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Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by which housing deprivation affects health, namely,...
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We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK - covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...
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This paper examines cartel overcharges for the European market. Using a sample of 191 overcharge estimates and several parametric and semi-parametric estimation procedures, the impact of different cartel characteristics and the market environment on the magnitude of overcharges is analyzed. The...
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supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …
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study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
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are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …
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This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate … interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and hence for the systemic risk potential. We employ several tests to assess …
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This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...
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The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe … diversity and the other a unified Europe. Our results indicate that investments need to be directed more generally to people of … younger ages in Europe. If equality is important enough additional investment should specifically be directed to disadvantaged …
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The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research...
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