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Overcoming History Through Exit or Integration - Deep-Rooted Sources of Support for the European Union
Gehring, Kai - 2020
Preferences about the vertical distribution of power in federal systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher-level governments can plausibly raise demands for exit strategies and a devolution of power. But integration, for instance delegating power...
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The Impact of Consumer Protection in the Digital Age : Evidence from the European Union
Rösner, Anja - 2020
We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data from the Special and Flash Eurobarometer for the years...
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Rallying Around the EU Flag : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Attitudes Toward European Integration
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Farvaque, Etienne; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2022
This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...
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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU
Widgren, Mika - 2021
This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....
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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
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Terrorism and Misperceptions : Evidence from Europe
Arin, K. Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large-scale survey that measures misperceptions towards minority groups in four European countries. Our results show that terror attacks in the past increased misperceptions of the...
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Social Organizations and Political Institutions : Why China and Europe Diverged
Mokyr, Joel; Tabellini, Guido - 2023
Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on …, while Europe remained politically fragmented for much longer. These initial differences, however, were amplified by the … different social organizations (clans in China, corporate structures in Europe) that spread in these two societies at the turn …
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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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Forecasting Exports Across Europe : What are the Superior Survey Indicators?
Lehmann, Robert - 2019
In this study, we systematically evaluate the potential of a bunch of survey-based indicators from different economic branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that the best-performing indicators beat a well-specified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861426
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864933