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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2014
Recent literature on biofuels has questioned whether biofuels policies are likely to reduce the negative effects of climate change. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable fuel standard in a dynamic model taking into account...
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Labor market policies, institutions and employment rates in the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo (contributor); Bruno, Randolph (contributor) - 2008
We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We … document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on …
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. (contributor) - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
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Transmission of business cycle shocks between the US and the euro area
Schneider, Martin; Fenz, Gerhard - 2008
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Does money matter for inflation in the euro area?
Kugler, Peter; Kaufmann, Sylvia - 2005
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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy
Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
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Emissions trading, CDM, JI, and more : the climate strategy of the EU
Klepper, Gernot (contributor); Peterson, Sonja (contributor) - 2005
The objective of this paper is to assess the likely allocation effects of the current climate protection strategy as it is laid out in the National Allocation Plans (NAPs) for the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The multi-regional, multi-sectoral CGEmodel DART is used to simulate the...
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Europe's hard fix : the euro area
Issing, Otmar - 2006
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European corporate governance reform and the German party paradox
Höpner, Martin - 2003
This paper addresses the current discussion on links between party politics and production regimes. Why do German Social Democrats opt for more corporate governance liberalization than the CDU although, in terms of the distributional outcomes of such reforms, one would expect the situation to be...
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How pervasive are Euro-politics? : Effects of EU membership on a new member state
Falkner, Gerda - 1999
While the consequences of becoming an EU member state for national policies are usually the core concern of pre … fifteen member states have so far been less numerous. Among the new EU members, which are ideal cases for studying domestic … question of this article is whether or not these measures were actually successful. How “sticky” is the EU upon closer …
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