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Performance of Western Hemisphere Trading Blocs : A Cost-Corrected Gravity Approach
Croce, Enzo - 2004
We study the performance of the four Western Hemisphere trading blocs during the period 1978-2001. For the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), trade integration outweighed trade diversion; for MERCOSUR, increased integration and trade diversion went hand in hand; for the Central American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404140
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Post-Crisis Bank Behavior : Lessons From Mercosur
Sanya, Sarah - 2010
Did the occurrence of systemic banking crises in the 1990s and 2000s significantly alter the behavior of banks in the Mercosur? The objective of this paper is to answer this question by analyzing changes in bank behavior after crises in the Mercosur region. To our knowledge, this is the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014412201
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International taxation and Luxembourg's economy
Mooij, Ruud A. de; Prihardini, Dinar; Pflugbeil, Antje; … - 2020
Luxembourg receives ample investment from multinational corporations, in part due to some attractive features in its … international tax rules. Around 95 percent of these foreign investments pass through Luxembourg via companies performing holding and …/or intra-group financing activities. While their contribution to Luxembourg's economy is modest relative to their large overall …
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Structural unemployment in Luxembourg : bad luck or rational choice?
Gbohoui, William - 2019
Luxembourg. The young, low-skilled, and non-EU migrants are found to be the most vulnerable groups in the labor market. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154712
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Trade Liberalization and Tax Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region
Abed, George T. - 1998
The European Union’s Association Agreements with several countries in the Southern Mediterranean Region (SMR) aim to promote deeper economic integration between the SMR and the EU by establishing a free trade area in twelve years. Because a large share of the SMR countries’ total imports...
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Selected Transition and Mediterranean Countries : An Institutional Primeron EMU and EU Relations
Feldman, Robert Alan - 1998
Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has a number of institutional implications for the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and selected Mediterranean countries that aspire to join the European Union (EU). After describing the current institutional framework for their relations with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400669
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Fiscal Revenues in South Mediterranean Arab Countries : Vulnerabilities and Growth Potential
Nashashibi, Karim A. - 2002
This paper reviews the fiscal revenue performance of Southern Mediterranean Arab countries (SMCs) over the last decade and compares this performance with selected middle income and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. These revenues have been declining over the...
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Narrowing vertical fiscal imbalances in four European countries
Karpowicz, Izabela - 2012
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Demand patterns in France, Germany, and Belgium : can we explain the differences?
Lebrun, Igor; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441770
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Unemployment Hysteresis, Wage Determination, and Labor Market Flexibility : The Case of Belgium
International Monetary Fund - 1994
Belgium can cause a downward rigidity in real wages, given the multi-tier real wage bargaining process. Recent initiatives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398156