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Forecasting Exports Across Europe : What are the Superior Survey Indicators?

Lehmann, Robert - 2019

branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that … indicators are superior: the Export Climate, the Production Expectations of domestic manufacturing firms, the Industrial … forecasters in order to choose the best-performing indicators and thus increasing the accuracy of export forecasts …

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Europe Beyond Coal - An Economic and Climate Impact Assessment

Böhringer, Christoph - 2020

Several European countries have decided to phase out coal power generation. Emissions from electricity generation are already regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and in some countries like Germany the phaseout of coal will be accompanied with cancellation of emissions allowances....

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The Determinants and Effects of Social Connectedness in Europe

Bailey, Michael - 2020

We use aggregated data from Facebook to study the structure of social networks across European regions. Social connectedness declines strongly in geographic distance and at country borders. Historical borders and unions — such as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechoslovakia, and East/West...

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Modernizing the European VAT

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020

The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...

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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele - 2019

We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...

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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2019

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established …

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Cycles and Long-Range Behaviour in the European Stock Market

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019

This paper uses a modelling framework which includes two singularities (or poles) in the spectral density function, one corresponding to the long-run (zero) frequency and the other to the cyclical (non-zero) frequency. The adopted specification is very general, since it allows for fractional...

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What Role for Electric Vehicles in the Decarbonization of the Car Transport Sector in Europe?

Littlejohn, Christina - 2019

The transport sector is the only sector where carbon emissions continue to grow. This has led policy makers to propose ambitious policies to reduce emissions in the car sector, in particular fuel efficiency standards, portfolio mandates for Electric Vehicles and purchase taxes or subsidies. A...

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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and …

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Persistence, Non-Linearities and Structural Breaks in European Stock Market Indices

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2019

This paper examines persistence, structural breaks and non-linearities in the case of five European stock market indices, namely the FTSE100 (UK), DAX30 (Germany), CAC40 (France), IBEX35 (Spain) and FTSE MIB40 (Italy), using fractional integration methods. The empirical results provide no...

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