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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012

Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...

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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Abdeljelil, Mouna Ben; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018

agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to …

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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...

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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …

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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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Is Western European agriculture resilient to high temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018

agriculture is likely to be smooth. …

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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence

Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001

Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …

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Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi traders : refuting Edwards and Ogilvie

Greif, Avner (contributor) - 2008

Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...

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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital : the Maghribi traders reappraised

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. (contributor); … - 2008

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