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Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020

foster economic growth. The Member States of the European Union (EU) should be allowed to replace their defective VATs with a …

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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers

Herberholz, Lars - 2020

The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....

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Exchange Rates and Consumer Prices : Evidence from Brexit

Breinlich, Holger - 2020

This paper studies how the depreciation of sterling following the Brexit referendum affected consumer prices in the United Kingdom. Our identification strategy uses input-output linkages to account for heterogeneity in exposure to import costs across product groups. We show that, after the...

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The Economic Effects of Brexit - Evidence from the Stock Market

Breinlich, Holger - 2018

Lancaster House speeches) were more closely correlated with potential changes to tariffs and non-tariff barriers on UK-EU trade … correlation between the share of EU migrants in different industries and stock market returns …

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Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence

Mikolajun, Irena - 2018

leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate the consequences of this event for EU integration. In particular …, we analyze how the extent of EU economic integration would change once the UK leaves the Union. To that end we develop an … in the EU is incomplete and its trend is non-linear while Brexit would not bring negative consequences to its development …

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Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs : An Application to Brexit

Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019

sectoral World Input Output Database (WIOD) to predict the impact of Brexit for every individual EU country by aggregating up … the country-sector effects. In contrast to other studies, we find EU-27 job losses to be substantially higher than … hitherto believed as a result of the closely integrated EU network structure. Upstream country-sectors stand to lose more from …

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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects

Buettner, Thiess - 2019

This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based on the ultimate investing country concept. We use a...

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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package

Aune, Finn Roar - 2019

In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European … Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a … comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its three main targets: lower greenhouse gas emissions, higher renewable share in …

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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments

Addison, John T. - 2019

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...

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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area

Peersman, Gert - 2019

This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics using a structural VAR model that is identified with an external instrument (i.e. a series of global harvest shocks). The results reveal that exogenous food commodity price...

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