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The political economy of EU enlargement : or, why Japan is not a candidate country?
Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2002
In this paper we argue that strong political economy forces explain the rush of the EU to expand eastwards. We use a model of vertical product differentiation in order to claim that technologically- advanced EU firms (residing in high-income member countries) prefer a mutual market-opening with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409769
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Macroeconomic impact of Eastern enlargement on Germany and UK : evidence from a CGE model
Baas, Timo; Brücker, Herbert - In: Applied economics letters 17 (2010) 1/3, pp. 125-128
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003946144
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EU enlargement: economic implications for countries and industries
Lejour, Arjan - 2001
This paper explores the economic consequences of the enlargement of the European Union with countries from Central and Eastern Europe. We focus on integration aspects that go beyond the reduction of formal trade barriers, namely accession to the internal market and free movement of labour. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400805
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Eastern enlargement of the EU : a comprehensive welfare assessment
Kohler, Wilhelm - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 26 (2004) 7, pp. 865-888
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002417833
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Quantifying Brexit : from ex post to ex ante using structural gravity
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; … - 2018
Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed bilateral trade data for 50 sectors to carry out an econometric ex post evaluation of the trade cost effects of the United Kingdom's various arrangements with the European Union. The analysis reveals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933707
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Implications of EU accession for international migration : an assessment of potential migration pressure
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2004
parameters of a migration function, exploiting panel estimation techniques. The results from the models are then used for so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402437
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Labor market effects of economic integration : the impact of re-unification in German border regions
Büttner, Thiess; Rincke, Johannes - 2004
The paper argues that economic integration causes problems for the labor market of high-wage countries due to cross-border labor mobility and the accompanying increase in labor supply. Empirical evidence is provided from an analysis of regional labor market effects of German re-unification. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402446
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Short-term modified Phillips curves for the accession countries
Camarero Olivas, Mariam; Carrion i Silvestre, Josep Lluís - In: Applied economics letters 13 (2006) 3, pp. 159-162
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