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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...
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Designing EU supply chain regulation
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; … - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 59 (2024) 1, pp. 28-34
The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence has sparked fierce debate about the regulation of supply chains. The directive's objectives are aligned with European values. However, it raises concerns that the compliance costs of social and environmental regulations may be privatised in...
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Optimal central bank design : benchmarks for the ECB
Berger, Helge (contributor) - 2006
The paper discusses key elements of optimal central bank design and applies its findings to the Eurosystem. A particular focus is on the size of monetary policy committees, the degree of centralization, and the representation of relative economic size in the voting rights of regional (or...
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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany
Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …
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The income efficiency of government expenditure on agricultural policy
Koester, Ulrich; Nuppenau, Ernst-August - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 22 (1987) 2, pp. 69-78
inadequate incomes. A large proportion of farms are threatened on both sides of the Atlantic, in the EC no less than in the USA … steeply both in the EC and in the USA. The question arises how much of this farm spending benefits farmers. …
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The income efficiency of government expenditure on agricultural policy
Koester, Ulrich - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 22 (1987) 2, pp. 69-78
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European identity and redistributive preferences
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2015
How important is spatial identity in shifting preferences for redistribution? This paper takes advantage of within-country variability in the adoption of a single currency as an instrument to examine the impact of the rescaling of spatial identity in Europe. We draw upon data from the last three...
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural …
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Are EC-Japan-US trade relations at the crossroads?
Sinha, Radha - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 25 (1990) 5, pp. 229-237
. The ultimate success of the negotiations largely depends on the attitudes of the USA, the EC and Japan. What are the main …
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The international competitiveness of Europe, the USA and Japan
Keller, Dietmar - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 20 (1985) 2, pp. 59-64
of the EC, the USA and Japan in international trade? How dependent are these three economic powers on the world market …The growing importance of Japan on the world market has brought with it changes in the international division of labour … and a shift in the focus of the expansion in world trade away from the EC and the USA. What factors determine the shares …
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