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Trade, Conflicts, and Political Integration : The Regional Interplays
Vicard, Vincent - 2021
This paper investigates the determinants of the different forms taken by regional integration in different parts of the world. This raises the issue of the relationship between economic and political integration. The theoretical model shows that, in an insecure world, the interplays between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317345
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Is Europe an Optimal Political Area?
Alesina, Alberto F.; Tabellini, Guido; Trebbi, Francesco - 2021
Employing a wide range of individual-level surveys, we study the extent of cultural and institutional heterogeneity within the EU and how this changed between 1980 and 2008. We present several novel empirical regularities that paint a complex picture. While Europe has experienced both systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315447
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The Anatomy of Constitution Making : From Denmark in 1949 to Iceland in 2017
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2017
-occupied Denmark and Denmark's 1849 constitution which served, with notable exceptions, as the prototype for Iceland's 1944 …This paper reviews aspects of the constitution making process in Iceland after the financial collapse of 2008 …, emphasizing the differences between the provisional constitution of 1944 when Iceland separated unilaterally from Nazi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953950
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Reduction of Employment Protection in Europe : A Comparative Fuzzy-Set Analysis
Ochel, Wolfgang; Hülsewig, Anja - 2021
by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316301
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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012
Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104253
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Trade, Factor Mobility and the Extent of Economic Integration : Theory and Evidence
Mikolajun, Irena - 2015
The Middle East was once seen as a medieval great globalized force. Nowadays it shows one of the lowest intra-regional trade in the world and therefore it is claimed that the region is poorly integrated. Yet, with the steady .ow of workers across national borders of the Middle East is this...
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Labor Standards and Economic Integration in the European Union : An Empirical Analysis
Dehejia, Vivek H. - 2006
This study is motivated by frequent calls to harmonize labor standards across countries, which result from the fear that economic integration (and the accompanying liberalization of trade flows) will lead to an erosion of working conditions, as countries deliberately try to reduce labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779788
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union
Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051267
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International Trade Integration : A Disaggregated Approach
Chen, Natalie - 2013
This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753160
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754994