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Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …
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The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...
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This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Using logistic smooth transition models, we explore the...
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This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …
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-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing … for differences in returns to skills in source and host countries. -- migration ; welfare state ; EU …
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In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed further light on the role of microeconomic factors vs. macroeconomic factors in influencing the...
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Union (EU), on the post-graduation mobility decisions of EU students in the UK. We exploit the British government's formal … new survey of graduating international students, we find that EU graduating students are significantly more likely than … non-EU graduating students to plan on leaving the UK upon graduation immediately after the announcement. Interestingly …
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seekers to Europe. This paper examines the determinants of the destination choice of first time non-EU asylum applicants to … the EU, between 2008-2020. It investigates the role played by policies related to employment rights, processing of asylum … EU. We find that the strongest pull factor for asylum seekers to a destination is social networks both in terms of …
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This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel … data for migration to the EU between 1995-2018. We address the potential endogeneity between public attitudes and migration … EU destinations. Our findings suggest that there is a negative causal relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and …
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This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
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