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Turkey and the EU : politics and economics of accession

Flam, Harry - 2003

This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...

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Turkish delight does Turkey´s accession to the EU bring economic benefits?

Lejour, Arjan; Mooij, Ruud A. de - 2004

We explore the economic implications of the possible Turkish accession to the European Union. We focus on three main changes associated with Turkish membership: (i) accession to the internal European Market; (ii) institutional reforms in Turkey triggered by EU-membership; and (iii) migration in...

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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe

Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

history of national reform processes. In addition the paper seeks to determine whether two-tier reforms later led to EPL …

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Local fiscal equalization in Estonia : is a reform necessary?

Friedrich, Peter; Nam, Chang-woon; Reiljan, Janno - 2009

Estonian municipalities should perform a broad range of functions, while their fiscal resources are often limited and large disparities in fiscal capacity prevail among them. Moreover, the power to regulate fiscal affairs is mostly in the hands of the central government. We discuss how a strict...

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Childcare costs and the demand for children : evidence from a nationwide reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2010

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the …

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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports

Stevenson, Betsey (contributor) - 2007

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"Take it or go to court" : the impact of sec. 1a of the German protection against dismissal act on severance payments

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2010

In 2004, a section was added to the German Protection against Dismissal Act, establishing a new procedure to dismiss an employee, given a predetermined severance payment. Most legal scholars presume the change to be without impact, while a minority of experts claims it to be either beneficial or...

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On the many ways Europeanization matters : the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)

Asquer, Alberto - 2009

to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in … European Court of Justice. -- regulatory reform ; public policy implementation ; Europeanization ; water sector ; Italy …

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Financial reform and banking crises

Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2009

We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking … crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to … of financial reform reduce the likelihood of systemic crises. We also show that after a country has reformed, the …

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Corporate governance reforms, interlocking directorship networks and company value in Italy (1998-2007)

Drago, Carlo; Millo, Francesco; Ricciuti, Roberto; … - 2011

In this paper we contribute to the literature on the structure of interlocking directorship networks and to the literature on the relationship between corporate governance and performance. We use a unique dataset made of corporate governance variables related to the board size and interlocking...

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