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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104253
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Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting : Evidence from European Multinationals
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2012
This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107348
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090004
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Do Transfer Pricing Laws Limit International Income Shifting? Evidence from European Multinationals
Lohse, Theresa - 2013
In recent years several countries have augmented their national tax laws by transfer pricing legislations which intend to limit the leeway of multinational firms to exploit international corporate tax rate differences and relocate profit to low-tax affiliates by distorting intra-firm transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075137
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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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Financing Bologna, the Internationally Mobile Students in European Higher Education
Gerard, Marcel - 2008
Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...
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Reforming European Universities : Scope for an Evidence-Based Process
Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2008
the reform process. The analysis shows that, while EU universities have improved their quantitative performance on …
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Wealth Inequality and Homeownership in Europe
Kaas, Leo - 2015
The recently published Household Finance and Consumption Survey has revealed large differences in wealth inequality between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership rates across countries. We use two decomposition methods...
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Crowding Out of Long-Term Care Insurance : Evidence from European Expectations Data
Costa-Font, Joan - 2014
Long-term care (LTC) is the largest insurable risk that old-age individuals face in most western societies. However, the demand for LTC insurance is still ostensibly small in comparison to the financial risk, which is reflected in the formation of expectations of insurance coverage. One...
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Neo-Protectionism and the European Lobbies
Belloc, Marianna - 2014
This paper empirically explores the connection between two recent phenomena in the European scenario: the dramatic upsurge of non-tariff trade measures and the remarkable rise in the role of European business lobbies. While these two facts have been widely recognized by the international trade...
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