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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Arouri, Mohamed; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581725
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members. -- Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763931
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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro Area
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Onorante, Luca; Paesani, Paolo - 2009
This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871923
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Price formation on the EuroMTS platform
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2010
This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro-denominated government securities on a number of (relatively large) domestic markets and on a (relatively small) European marketplace (EuroMTS). Using twenty-seven months of daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937257
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EU banks rating assignments : is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010
We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our … aim is to assess whether "old" and "new" EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether "new" ones are … intercepts) are a crucial determinant of ratings. Whilst "new" EU countries typically have lower ratings than "old" ones, after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974520
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Income and happiness across Europe : do reference values matter?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Georgellis, Yannis; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624017
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Identification of segments of European banks with a latent class frontier model
Barros, Carlos Pestana (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599497
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The euro and inflation uncertainty in the European Monetary Union
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003395399
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Liquidity risk, credit risk and the overnight interest rate spread : a stochastic volatility modelling approach
Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2010
In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy rate (the policy spread) for the euro area and the UK during the two main phases of the financial crisis that began in late 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983199
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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010184