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An analysis of institutional change in the European Union with an application to social policy

Kolmar, Martin - 2002

Institutional change is guided by rules. In the European Union these rules are given by Art. 250-252 of the Treaty of Amsterdam. These articles define the actors and rules that bring about changes in policies in the European Union. We analyze these articles as games in extensive form and...

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How to finance Eastern enlargement of the EU : the need to reform EU policies and the consequences for the net contributor balance

Weise, Christian - 2002

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European mothers' time with children : differences and similarities across nine countries

Joesch, Jutta M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2002

We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country...

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Back on track? : savings puzzles in EU-accession countries

Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2002

After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and … savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …

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Stability criteria and convergence : the role of the system of national accounts for fiscal policy in Europe

Brück, Tilman; Cors, Andreas; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; … - 2002

The standardisation of the European systems of national accounts has progressed significantly in recent years. Some room for interpretation remains in regard to some accounting standards, the periodicity of the data, and the quality of the forecasts of budget deficits. Yet national accounts data...

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Income thresholds and income classes

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Mulière, Pietro; Secchi, Piercesare - 2003

estimation procedure is implemented using a bootstrap technique. Finally, an application of the method to EU member states and to …

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Doorkeepers and gatecrashers : EU enlargement and negotiation strategies

Brücker, Herbert; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Weise, … - 2003

This paper discusses the eastward enlargement process of the EU in the framework of a simple war of attrition … bargaining game. Both players - the existing EU members and the applicants - benefit from enlargement, yet for the applicants … reform to the acquis is costly, while the EU prefers substantially reformed candidates. A waiting game unfolds. Within this …

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Analyzing e-learning adoption via recursive partitioning

Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian D. - 2003

The paper analyzes factors that influence the adoption of e-learning and gives an example of how to forecast technology adoption based on a post-hoc predictive segmentation using a classification and regression tree (CART). We find strong evidence for the existence of technological...

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Time-varying Nairu and real interest rates in the Euro Area

Logeay, Camille; Tober, Silke - 2003

This paper analyses the Nairu in the Euro Area and the influence that monetary policy had on its development. Using the Kalman-filter technique we find that the Nairu has varied considerably since the early seventies. The Kalman-filter technique is applied here for the first time using explicit...

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Smoothed income poverty in European countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the first four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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