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Subsidizing National Champions : An Evolutionary Perspective
Aubert, Cecile - 2008
A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Huttunen, Kristiina - 2010
Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The system …'s clear eligibility criteria open up an opportunity for a reliable estimation of the causal impacts of the subsidy, using a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment …
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Inflation Expectations and Inflation Uncertainty in the Eurozone : Evidence from Survey Data
Arnold, Ivo J.M. - 2013
This paper uses the European Commission's Consumer Survey to assess whether inflation expectations have converged and whether inflation uncertainty has diminished following the introduction of the Euro in Europe. Consumers' responses to the survey suggest that inflation expectations depend more...
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Enlargement versus Deepening : The Trade-Off Facing Economic Unions
Lorz, Oliver - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain about the degree of centralization within the union. In our model strategic delegation affects the...
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Measuring Synchronicity and Co-Movement of Business Cycles with an Application to the Euro Area
Mink, Mark - 2011
We develop multivariate measures of synchronicity and co-movement of business cycles. In addition to synchronicity, the co-movement measure takes differences between cycle amplitudes into account that have been overlooked in most previous studies. We apply the new measures to the euro area....
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Economic, Political and Institutional Determinants of Budget Deficits in the European Union
Bayar, Ali H. - 2009
Using an extended data set of EU countries ranging from 1971-2006 and relevant econometric methods, we investigate the economic, political, and institutional determinants of government deficits in the EU. The results show a strong opportunistic behaviour of policymakers which leads to political...
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Economic and Political Determinants of Budget Deficits in the European Union : A Dynamic Random Coefficient Approach
Bayar, Ali H. - 2009
This paper formulates a dynamic Random Coefficient Model (RCM) to consider a set of popular determinants of public deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective. Although the extent of government deficits and debt has...
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The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions
Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo - 2009
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...
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Going NUTS : The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance
Becker, Sascha O. - 2009
The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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