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power were transferred from the Council of Ministers to the European Parliament. On the one hand, citizens benefit from a … Parliament would be less accountable to the voters of each state since in the European election each state is only decisive with …
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Using data from a unique survey of members of parliaments in France, Germany and Italy in 2018, we estimate the effects of three dimensions on EU and euro area fiscal reform preferences: nationality, political ideology, and populism. We predict and confirm that a German populist party on the...
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for politicians. We exploit variation in sex ratios - the number of men divided by the number of women in a region … election. These results suggest that while women were more likely to run for a seat in parliament in constituencies with lower … - across Germany induced by WWII. In the 1990 elections, women were more likely to run for office in constituencies that had …
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measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power …
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With the fall of the borders between (most of) the countries of the Common Market, the member countries of the EC have lost one of their most important instrument to control immigration: the control of their external borders. This fact combined with the increasing immigration pressure from...
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The objective of this paper is to present different equity rules that can be applied to the initial allocation of greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well as on the level of member states. The methodological framework used in the empirical...
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The paper investigates the business cycle relationships between the EU-15, the EU-11, as well as the EU-core countries for the period 1971 to 1997. Emphasis is put on the question whether there is a synchronization in the national business cycles or not. Using One-way- and Twoway-Anova...
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