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Vertical Market Power in Interconnected Natural Gas and Electricity Markets
Marks, Levi - 2017
New England is at the leading edge of an energy transition in which natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in the US electricity generation mix. In recent years, the region's wholesale natural gas and electricity markets have experienced severe, simultaneous price spikes. While...
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Liberalizing Russian Gas Markets – An Economic Analysis
Aune, Finn Roar - 2017
subsidies, and how changes in Russian gas consumption may affect its gas export to Europe. We also examine the importance of … Russian pipeline capacity to Europe, as well as impacts of hypothetical changes in Russian gas export behavior. For this … purpose, we use a detailed numerical model for the energy markets in Europe and Russia – LIBEMOD. Our results suggest that …
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Government Deficits in the European Union : An Analysis of Entry and Exit Dynamics
Bayar, Ali H. - 2009
The extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. However, much less has been contributed about their dynamics. Yet, the issue of entering into and exiting from excessive deficits is critical in the Economic and Monetary Union since the Stability...
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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training : A Theoretical Model with Evidence from Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
We study the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model indicates that there are two contrasting effects of deregulation on training. With a given number of firms, deregulation reduces the size of rents per unit of output that firms can reap by training their...
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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VAT and Agriculture : Lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be ‘washed out' through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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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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