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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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background of changing spatial generation patterns, deeper international integration ofnational systems, and spillovers of …
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With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...
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The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of Russian export disruption (Richter & Holz, 2015)....
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We develop a dynamic model of strategic investment in a transnational pipeline system. In the absence of international contract enforcement, countries may distort investment in order to increase their bargaining power, resulting in overinvestment in expensive and underinvestment in cheap...
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