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It is a longstanding debate whether members of parliament (MPs) should be allowed to follow sideline jobs in addition to their mandate. Critics claim that politicians already face binding time constraints and that moonlighting might lead to a neglect of inner-parliamentary duties. The purpose of...
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integration. The "new economic geography" world assumes mobile entrepreneurs which can relocate thus bringing agglomeration forces … integration, where one country has emerged as the core and the other as the periphery, the core may have more generous social … constrained, however, and related to the level of trade integration in a bell-shaped way. …
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The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It …
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Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This … paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting differences … attendance by refugee children on their parents' integration. We find a significant and substantial positive effect, in …
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to the CEEC's financial markets. Since the integration of formerly strongly regulated markets into global markets can … impact of global sentiments and stock prices on domestic variables increases proportionally with the degree of integration … income. The significance of this link increases with economic integration. -- Cointegration ; European integration …
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European integration should be accompanied by an increasing regional specialisation. In contrast, our results for the period …
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The paper investigates whether the presence and tenure of Private Equity (PE) investment in European companies improves their performance. Previous studies documented the unambiguous merit of a buyout during the 1980s and 1990s for listed firms in the US and UK markets. This study analyzes such...
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We apply a merchant transmission model to the trilateral market coupling (TLC) arrangement among the Netherlands, Belgium and France as a generic example, and note that it can be applied to any general market splitting or coupling of Europe's different national power markets. In this merchant...
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Under perfect competition on the output market, first best technology subsidies in the presence of learning by doing are justified by knowledge spill overs that are not accounted for by individual companies. First best output subsidies are thus depending directly on the learning effects and are,...
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This paper provides a way of evaluating a player's contribution to her team and relates her effort to her salaries. We collect data from UEFA Euro 2008 Tournament and construct the passing network of each team. Then we determine the key player in the game while ranking all the other players too....
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