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European Climate Policy: Burden Sharing after 2012

Bode, Sven - 2004

Regardless of whether or not the Kyoto Protocol enters into force, the EU may decide to set itself a long-term greenhouse gas emission target and thus to continue its leadership role in international climate policy. As for the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU may decide on a...

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Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities

Suedekum, Jens - 2004

Regional unemployment rates in the European Union (EU-15) reveal a core-periphery structure. Large ?core? regions in … the middle of the continent have low unemployment rates, whereas excessive mass unemployment is predominantly found in the … peripheral regions at the outside borders of EU-15. This geographical pattern of unemployment rates follows the pattern of GDP …

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Eastern Enlargement of the EU: A Comprehensive Welfare Assessment

Kohler, Wilhelm K. - 2004

differentiation, capital accumulation, and unemployment due to search-costs. I then propose a method that allows to extend welfare …

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Sharing the climate policy burden in the EU

Aidt, Toke; Greiner, Sandra - 2002

The question of how to share the costs of the measures to be taken against global warming is one of the most controversial questions in the international climate policy debate, and is, as yet, unsettled. The burden sharing agreement (BSA) reached by EU Member States is a rare example of a...

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Regional convergence in the European Union (1985 - 1999): A spatial dynamic panel analysis

Badinger, Harald; Müller, Werner G.; Tondl, Gabriele - 2002

We estimate the speed of income convergence for a sample of 196 European NUTS 2 regions over the period 1985-1999. So far there is no direct estimator available for dynamic panels with strong spatial dependencies. We propose a two-step procedure, which involves first spatial filtering of the...

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Public expenditure and international specialisation

Brülhart, Marius; Trionfetti, Federico - 2001

It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector...

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Testing for convergence clubs in income per-capita: A predictive density approach

Canova, Fabio - 2001

The paper proposes a technique to jointly tests for groupings of unknown size in the cross sectional dimension of a panel and estimates the parameters of each group, and applies it to identifying convergence clubs in income per-capita. The approach uses the predictive density of the data,...

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Forecasting trend output in the Euro area

Schumacher, Christian - 2000

This paper estimates and forecasts trend output and output gaps for the Euro area. In the monetary strategy of the European Central Bank (ECB), trend output is used to forecast a reference value for money. For this purpose, trend output must be forecasted as well. In this paper, a...

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International mobility of the highly skilled: Brain gain, brain drain or brain exchange

Straubhaar, Thomas - 2000

flows of individuals with no more than a primary education are quite small, and reach only about 500?000 individuals out of … a total of 7 million immigrants! „For most countries, people with a tertiary education have the highest migration rate …

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