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Should they stay or should they go? : climate migrants and local conflicts

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Peri, Giovanni - In: Journal of economic geography 21 (2021) 4, pp. 619-651

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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data

Peri, Giovanni - 2019

This paper examines the impact of temperature changes on rural-urban migration using a 56km×56km grid cell level dataset covering the whole world at 10-year frequency during the period 1970-2000. We find that rising temperatures reduce rural-urban migration in poor countries and increase such...

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Short and Long-Run Behaviour of Long-Term Sovereign Bond Yields

Afonso, António - 2010

This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …

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The Aftermath of the 1992 ERM Breakup : Was There a Macroeconomic Free Lunch?

Gordon, Robert J. - 1999

This paper examines the macroeconomic aftermath of the 1992 breakdown of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The economic performance of six leaver' nations is compared with five stayer' nations that maintained a roughly fixed parity with the Deutsche Mark. Recent writing about...

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Spend-and-Tax : A Panel Data Investigation for the EU

Afonso, António - 2009

, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend … Finland and the UK, and for several EU New Member States. Moreover, in the run-up to EMU there was some shifting away from a …

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Tobacco Taxation in the European Union

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2006

with its views on tobacco tax policy in the EU. A 2004 publication issued by the Commission expressed the beliefs that … specific rates. This article reviews and evaluates EU tobacco tax policies. It supports the move towards specific taxation, but …

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VAT and Agriculture : Lessons from Europe

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017

inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that permits them to charge a presumptive rate (approximately equal to the …

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‘Whatever It Takes’ to Resolve the European Sovereign Debt Crisis? Bond Pricing Regime Switches and Monetary Policy Effects

Afonso, António - 2017

This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...

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3-Step Analysis of Public Finances Sustainability : The Case of the European Union

Afonso, António - 2008

We use a 3-step analysis to assess the sustainability of public finances in the EU27. Firstly, we perform the SURADF … and revenues via SUR analysis. While results imply that public finances were not unsustainable for the EU panel, fiscal …

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