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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of 'dirty' goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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Determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania : A Multilevel Analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2021

The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....

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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration

Brakman, Steven - 2011

, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration … that go along with EU integration along the border. Both at the urban and regional level, we find a beneficial influence of … the EU integration process as measured by the growth in population share along the integration borders, leading to an …

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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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Reflections on Cluster Policies

Brakman, Steven - 2012

Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...

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The Tragedy of the Commons and Inflation Bias in the Euro Area

Dinger, Valeriya - 2013

Central bank credit has expanded dramatically in some of the euro area member countries since the beginning of the financial crisis. This paper makes two contributions to understand this stylized fact. First, we discuss a simple model of monetary policy that includes (i) a credit channel and...

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On Creditor Seniority and Sovereign Bond Prices in Europe

Steinkamp, Sven - 2013

The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental variables has generated a debate on multiple equilibria in the sovereign bond market (see De Grauwe and Ji (2012)). We critically evaluate this hypothesis, by pointing towards an...

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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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Consequences of Brexit and Options for a 'Global Britain'

Brakman, Steven - 2017

; most studies predict a trade and welfare loss for both the UK and the EU. The UK parliament has indicated that it aims for … for the EU. After reviewing all potential options, we have a simple answer to the question whether the UK has an … alternative for the existing trade agreement with the EU. The answer is: No. Only a trade agreement with the EU can compensate for …

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Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through : Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries

Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2017

In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed further light on the role of microeconomic factors vs. macroeconomic factors in influencing the...

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