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Disposal of petroleum installations - major policy issues

Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000

Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...

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Catching up : the role of demand, supply and regulated price effects on the real exchange rates of four accession countries

MacDonald, Ronald; Wójcik, Cezary - 2003

The main aim of this paper is to examine the exchange rate behavior of a group of four transitional, EU accession …

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Financing entrepreneurial firms in Europe : facts, issues, and research agenda

Bottazzi, Laura; Da Rin, Marco - 2003

capital in most EU countries, and the creation of several 'new' equity markets targeted at innovative firms have dramatically …

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Energy taxes and natural gas demand in EU-countries

Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2001

value chain. We examine whos is actually bearing the burden of increased energy taxes in the EU-area - consumers or … exporters. Traditional tax incidence theory presumes spot markets. Natural gas in the EU-area, however, is to a large extent …, oil and electricity, for different market segments (households, industry, power generators) in EU countries. Particular …

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One size must fit all national devergences in a monetary union

Gros, Daniel; Hefeker, Carsten - 2000

decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national rates …

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Innovation and spillovers : evidence from European regions

Bottazzi, Laura; Peri, Giovanni - 2000

The importance of innovation for the economic performance of industrialized countries has been largely stressed recently by the theoretical and empirical literature. Moreover the intensity of knowledge externalities in generating innovation, is the key parameter in determining sustained growth...

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Eqilibrium contracts for the central bank of a monetary union

Dixit, Avinash K.; Jensen, Henrik - 2000

We consider the political economy of a monetary union where member governments attempt to influence the policy of the common central bank. Modeling this as a common agency with incentive contracts, we show that if incentives are all that matters for the bank, the equilibrium implements a...

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Macroeconomic stabilization policies in the EMU : spillovers, asymmetries, and institutions

Di Bartolomeo, Giovanni; Engwerda, Jacob Christiaan; … - 2005

This paper studies the institutional design of the coordination of macroeconomic stabilization policies within a monetary union in the framework of linear quadratic differential games. A central role in the analysis plays the partitioned game approach of the endogenous coalition formation...

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Asymmetries in the Trans-Atlantic monetary policy relationship : does the ECB follow the Fed? ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance, Febru...

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2005

The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...

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Who needs foreign banks?

Gros, Daniel - 2003

10 countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC) that will join the EU 2004/7 the banking system is now dominated by …

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