This paper examines whether the Big Three credit rating agencies actually played as active a role in the Euro Crisis as …

This paper studies the impact of credit rating agency (CRA) announcements on the value of the Euro and the yields of …-2012. The employed GARCH models show that CRA downgrade announcements negatively affected the value of the Euro currency and …

different ratios of fixed and variable components in the taxes levied. Given the importance of taxation systems for market and … factor reduces market transparency and may mean that taxes are levied twice. Only in a few countries' tax schemes is fuel …

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these … countries, women's determinants of labor market transitions are compared by means of pooled multinominal logit-regressions. The …

prices and sufficient production capacities are vital to maintain Gazpromś market share in Europe over the next decade. At … spot trades in Europe may encourage Gazprom to exercise market power in its export markets. …

national variables. We estimate our macro model using quarterly data from Q1 1984 to Q4 2007 for the G7 countries plus the euro …