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In this paper, we analyse the effects of a unilateral change in an emissions tax in a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms. We find a positive effect of tighter environmental policy on average productivity in the reforming country through reallocation of labour towards exporting...
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the paper analyzes different possible developments of selected common policies in the EU if enhanced cooperation is … practised by a sub-group of EU-members. Based on cluster analysis similarities and distinctions among the EU members with …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the market efficiency on the foreign exchange market since the introduction of the Euro by applying the cointegration analysis to exchange rates. The introduction of the Euro has changed the structure of the global foreign exchange market to the extent...
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In the light of the current economic debt crisis within the Euro zone, the heterogeneity of EU members has becoming … economic integration with the other EU members. Despite the common use of the term "European integration", neither a uniform … integration are hard to quantify, thereby making it almost impossible to argue objectively whether an individual EU member state …
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The paper discusses the seriousness of current account imbalances in the last few decades in Europe, with a particular focus on the European Monetary Union. A closer look at the development of current accounts in European economies suggests the existence of some serious structural problems that...
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-zelnen EU-Mitgliedsländern unterschiedlich stark ist. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird daher ein Integrationsindex vorgestellt, der … den Integrationsgrad der einzelnen Mitgliedstaaten mit den übrigen EU-Partnern bestimmt und auch seine Veränderungen im … den Sub-indizes zeigt sich, dass die Rangordnung der EU-Staaten hinsichtlich ihrer Integrationstiefe zwischen den …
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creating a homogeneous group. They differ in the length of EU membership, income per capita, membership and non-membership of …
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The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are amplified by economic integration, which makes factors...
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis trust, in the European Central Bank (ECB) has reached an historical low. Taking panel data and using a fixed effects DFGLS estimation for a 12–country sample over the time period 1999 to 2011 with a total of 312 observations, this paper detects a...
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